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“He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to give his name to a glassy sea.”

Giving Names Imagination Study Sea Poet Wings Rely Artificial Imitation Julius

Author:Horace

“The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has only produced an idle contest.”

Study Influence Poet Glory Painter Mutual Idle Contests

Author:Isaac D'Israeli

“When an Englishman has professed his belief in the supremacy of Shakespeare amongst all poets, he feels himself excused from the general study of literature. He also feels himself excused from the particular study of Shakespeare.”

Feels Literature Belief Study Particular Poet Englishmen Supremacy

Author:Aubrey Beardsley

“There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.”

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Author:Jean Giraudoux

“In poetry, and in my study in graduate school, I was drawn to a particular poet, Theodore Roethke. I did a dissertation on "The Evolution of Matter and Spirit in the Poetry of Theodore Roethke" for my Ph.D.”

Matter School Spirit Study Particular Poet Evolution Graduates Rama Graduate School Theodore Dissertation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Natural emotion is the soul of poetry, as melody is of music; the same faults are engendered by over-study of either art; there is a lack of sincerity, of irresistible impulse in both the poet and the, composer.”

Art Soul Natural Emotion Study Poet Faults Impulse Melody Sincerity Composer Irresistible

Book:Poets of America

Source: Poets of America

“The poet must be alike polished by an intercourse with the world as with the studies of taste; one to whom labour is negligence, refinement a science, and art a nature.”

World Art Study Poet Taste Labour Intercourse Polished Refinement Art And Science Negligence

Author:Isaac D'Israeli

“A poet's soul must contain the perfect shape of all things good, wise and just. His body must be spotless and without blemish, his life pure, his thoughts high, his studies intense.”

Soul Body Perfect Study Wise Poet Pure Shapes All Things Intense Good Wise

Book:Collected essays

Source: Collected essays

“I was only sitting here in my white study with the awful black words pushing me around.”

Poetry Black White Study Poet Sitting Awful Pushing

Author:Anne Sexton

“There is so much poetry, and yet nothing is more rare than a poetic work. This is what the masses make out of poetical sketches, studies, aphorisms, trends, ruins, and raw material.”

Poetry Study Poet Materials Mass Ruins Poetic Trends Aphorism Raw Materials Make Out

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“I hope any poem I've ever written could stand on its own and not need to be a part of biography, critical theory or cultural studies. I don't want to give a poetry reading and have to provide the story behind the poem in order for it to make sense to an audience. I certainly don't want the poem to require a critical intermediary - a "spokescritic." I want my poems to be independently meaningful moments of power for a good reader. And that's the expectation I initially bring to other poets' writing.”

“There has been a vast output of critical studies in contemporary poetry, some of them first rate, but I do not think that , as a rule, a poet should read them.”

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Author:W. H. Auden

“A young poet in America should not be advised at the outset to give up all for the Muse-to seclude himself in the country, to live hand from mouth in Greenwich Village or to escape to the Riviera. I should not advise him even to become a magazine editor or work in a publisher's office. The poet would do better to study a profession, to become a banker or a public official or even to go in for the movies.”

Source: The shores of light: a literary chronicle of the twenties and thirties

“Khairani Barokka is a writer, spoken-word poet, visual artist and performer whose work has a strong vein of activism, particularly around disability, but also how this intersects with, for example, issues of gender - she's campaigned for reproductive rights in her native Indonesian, and is currently studying for a PhD in disability and visual cultures at Goldsmiths. She's written a feminist, environmentalist, anti-colonialist narrative poem, with tactile artwork and a Braille translation. How could I not publish that?”

“Fiction writers have their own world, and poets have their own world, and literary criticism has sort of passed over into cultural studies in the university, and so on. They seem more disconnected from each other than they did when I first began to write.”

World Writing Firsts Seems Fiction Study Poet Criticism University Fiction Writers Disconnected Literary Criticism

Author:Robert Hass

“You have to give your art everything you can - I don't mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking, reading what poets have written other than their poetry.”

Thinking Giving Writing Mean Art Reading Study Written Poet

Author:Adrienne Rich