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“It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.”

Art Lying Taught Poet Telling Lies

Book:Poetics

Source: Poetics

“Poems are taught as though the poet has put a secret key in his words and it is the reader's job to find it. Poems are not mystery novels.”

Jobs Poetry Secret Novel Mystery Taught Poet Keys Reader Mystery Novels

Book:Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

Source: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

“The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from the Gods.”

Men Work Taught Poet Philosopher Contempt Idleness Degradation Free Man Antiquity

Book:The Right to be Lazy and Other Studies

Source: The Right to be Lazy and Other Studies

“Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?”

Life Remember Poetry Taught Poet Remember When

Book:Your Native Land, Your Life

Source: Your Native Land, Your Life

“Poets are immersed in process, and I mean process not as an amorphous blur but as a discipline. The hard work of writing has taught me that in matters of the heart, such as writing, or faith, there is no right or wrong way to do it, but only the way of your life. Just paying attention will teach you what bears fruit and what doesn't. But it will be necessary to revise--to doodle, scratch out, erase, even make a mess of things--in order to make it come out right.”

Way Writing Heart Mean Matter Hard Order Process Attention Teach Taught Poet Hard Work Bears Discipline Fruit Mess Pay Attention Scratches Erase Wrong Way Blur Matters Of The Heart

Author:Kathleen Norris

“Schoolchildren all over America are told to write to authors-often to authors whom they have never before heard of, whose work they are to young to understand in the least, and often in letters which are almost illiterate. If children are to be taught to respect the work of American poets I think some better way might be found to do so- some way which would not make such an inconsiderate demand on the author's time.”

Ifs Thinking Way Writing Children Might America Young Found Heard Taught Poet Demand Letters Better Ways Illiterate Inconsiderate

Author:Conrad Aiken

“When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program we required the poets to take workshops in fiction writing and we required the fiction writers to take workshops in poetry. And the reason for that is because the fiction writers seemed to need to learn how to pay greater attention to language itself, to the way that language works.”

Way Needs Writing Reason Language Pay Attention Fiction Creative Greater Taught Poet Program University Creative Writing Workshops Fiction Writing Fiction Writers Houston

Author:Edward Hirsch

“As a poet and as an actress, we're taught to be far more elaborate with our words and - I wouldn't say generalize, but definitely stronger with our choices.”

Choices Taught Poet Stronger Actresses Our Words Our Choices

Author:Masiela Lusha

“[Kenneth Koch] taught us to be playful, to be very appreciative of other poets, to appreciate all forms of expression. He taught us to be experimental.”

Form Taught Poet Expression Appreciate Taught Us Appreciative Kenneth

Author:Jim Jarmusch

“I must say what I admire most is the person who masters an area of practical experience, and can teach me something. I mean, my local midwife has taught me how to keep bees. Well, she can't understand anything I write. And I find myself liking her, may I say, more than most poets. And among my friends I find people who know all about boats or know all about certain sports, or how to cut somebody open and remove an organ. I'm fascinated by this mastery of the practical.”

“The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.”

World Reason Fire Taught Poet Critics Admire Generous

Author:Edgar Allan Poe

“Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures on color, and taught others the theory of ideas which they had and he had not. In the social sphere these gifted ones are mostly women; they can watch a world which they never saw, and estimate forces of which they have only heard. We call it intuition.”

World Ideas Force Social Watches Saws Heard Objects Taught Color Poet Theory Birth Blind Intuition Excellent Visuals Professors Spheres Gifted Lectures Accuracy

Author:Thomas Hardy