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“Say, Britain, could you ever boast, Three poets in an age at most? Our chilling climate hardly bears A sprig of bays in fifty years.”

Years Age Three Poet Bears Climate Britain Fifty Boast Chill

Author:Jonathan Swift

“Nowadays when a poet with one privately printed book can have his next three years taken care of by a Guggenheim fellowship, a Kenyon Review fellowship, and the Prix de Rome, it is hard to remember what chances the poet took in that small-town world, how precariously hand-to-mouth his existence was. And yet in one way the old days were better; [Vachel] Lindsay after a while, by luck and skill, got far more readers than any poet could get today.”

“Mervyn Peake is a finer poet than Edgar Allan Poe, and he is therefore able to maintain his world of fantasy brilliantly through three novels. It (Gormenghast trilogy) is a very, very great work ... a classic of our age.”

World Age Able Three Fantasy Novel Poet Classic Great Work Trilogies Allan Poe Gormenghast

Book:The Gormenghast Novels

Source: The Gormenghast Novels

“He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.”

Three Five Poet Masters Ten Lifetime Haiku

Author:Matsuo Basho

“The critic ... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three.”

Should Three Poet Critics Philosopher Observers

Book:Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke

Source: Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke

“Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.”

Three Four Generations Poet

Author:Kenneth Koch

“The man who invented Eskimo Pie made a million dollars, so one is told, but E.E. Cummings, whose verse has been appearing off andon for three years now, and whose experiments should not be more appalling to those interested in poetry than the experiment of surrounding ice-cream with a layer of chocolate was to those interested in soda fountains, has hardly made a dent in the doughy minds of our so-called poetry lovers.”

“You need to have a God, a lover, and an enemy, says the poet. Exactly: you need to have three enemies.”

Needs God Three Enemy Poet Lovers

Author:Jose Bergamin

“The three states of the caterpillar, larva, and butterfly have, since the time of the Greek poets, been applied to typify the human being,--its terrestrial form, apparent death, and ultimate celestial destination.”

Humans States Form Three Human Beings Poet Ultimate Immortality Greek Destination Butterfly Celestial Caterpillars

Book:Salmonia: Or, Days of Fly Fishing. With Some Account of the Habits of Fishes Belonging to the Genus Salmo

Source: Salmonia: Or, Days of Fly Fishing. With Some Account of the Habits of Fishes Belonging to the Genus Salmo

“In America, where you'd have thought the country's so huge it couldn't happen quite so cosily, everyone's giving his imprimatur to everyone else. You line up three or four well-known poets and a couple of eminent academics on the dustjacket, and the rest of academe follow like sheep. That's death really, if you take pleasure in it. Mind you, the occasional puff's hard to resist, but you shouldn't inhale.”

Ifs Giving Mind Wells Country Hard Happens America Three Lines Pleasure Known Four Poet Huge Couple Sheep Well Known Occasional Puff Inhale

Author:Michael Longley

“Many people I know - writers, poets - they have all been sentenced not once but sometimes three times after they come out. They serve five or six years, come out another time, and then nine years. Come out again, 12 years. Only because they have a different opinion. They are innocent people, they have beautiful minds, beautiful hearts.”

People Knows Years Mind Heart Different Sometimes Beautiful Three Opinion Five Poet Six Nine Innocent Three Times Nine Years Another Time Beautiful Heart Different Opinions Beautiful Mind

Author:Ai Weiwei

“I love men. I've always been drawn to poets, artists, and madmen. Sometimes all three in one”

Men Sometimes Artist Three Poet Madmen Three In One

Author:Jessica Lange

“To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century.”

Two Three Language Century Poet Tasks Dimensions Rebel 20th Century

Author:Terence McKenna

“My mom was a manic depressive schizophrenic who, after a year in prison, went home and shot herself. My sister, Kirsten, an amazing poet, who was raised by this woman, and was dating a guy who broke up with her for the fourth time in three weeks. And one day, she came to his house, got a gun, and blew her brains out all over his headboard. I just went through a divorce, five years in court and cost me $2 million dollars. If anyone, by law, should be forced to take antidepressants it's me... But instead, I choose to be an antidepressant. And you can take me with alcohol.”

“I co-edited an anthology called Interfictions with Delia Sherman and wrote a short scholarly book on three women poets called Voices from Fairyland: The Fantastical Poems of Mary Coleridge, Charlotte Mew, and Sylvia Townsend Warner. So I've been busy, but I haven't had time to write a novel.”

Writing Book Three Voice Novel Havens Poet Busy Mary Anthology Charlotte Edited Scholarly

Author:Theodora Goss

“In the 1970s, for example, I found myself learning to relish the poetry of Andrew Marvell and Sir Thomas Wyatt, and getting a handle on poetry of plainer speech than I had dwelt with heretofore. Which led me into a new appreciation of middle [William Butler ] Yeats, of the short three-beat line and forward-driving syntax, and that paid in, in turn, to a poem like Casualty in Field Work. The traffic, however, was usually the other way. My teaching was animated by what I was reading and being excited by as a poet.”

Way Turns Three Reading Found Lines Teaching Middle Example Fields Poet Speech Beats Paid Appreciation Excited Driving Handle Traffic Animated Relish Casualties Andrew Butlers Syntax Yeats

Author:Adam Kirsch

“There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.”

Knows Three Poet Respect Dignity Soldier Worthy Priests Poetic

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.”

Two Poetry Three Written Poet Memorable Poetic Verses Three Times Poetry By Famous Poets

Author:Alfred de Musset

“At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.”

Feels Death Three Loss Poet Stones Temples Three Words Geisha

Author:Arthur Golden

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