“Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.” MomentsPoetryPoetToughBaseballPitcherPitchingIntervalsBaseball PlayerFamous BaseballBaseball GamesInspirational BaseballMotivational BaseballTough ThingsBest BaseballBaseball PitchingBaseball Pitcher Author:Robert Frost
“I was strong and tough enough and charming. / How else is a fat Jew lesbian poet gonna get by? / Listening to the radio, staying home, staying alone, like / they mean us to. / Who means you to be left out? / Who don't?” MeanEnoughHomeLeftStrongPoetListeningToughRadioJewFatsStayingBigotryOutsidersCharmingLeft Out Author:Elana Dykewomon
“Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.” HonestyPoetToughContemporaryPoeticSense Of HumorIrresistiblePhilip Author:Robert Morgan
“Virtually every beginning poet hurts himself by an addiction to adjectives. Verbs are by far the most important things for poems-especially wonderful tough monosyllables like "gasp" and "cry." Nouns are the next most important. Adjectives tend to be useless.” ImportantNextHurtWonderfulCryPoetToughImportant ThingsAddictionUselessVerbsAdjectivesNouns Author:Donald Hall
“The role of the poet is almost nothing...drearily nothing. And when he steps outside of his boots and tries to get tough as our dear Ezra [Pound] did, he will get his pink little ass slapped.” TryingLittlesStepsRolesPoetToughDearAssPoundsBoots Author:Charles Bukowski
“It's difficult not to color our perception of author's product with his personality. There are so many examples of this. What do we think of Ezra Pound - clearly a great poet and clearly kind of an asshole? You can say the same thing about Louis-Ferdinand Céline, who clearly was a Nazi sympathizer, and yet one of the great writers of the 20th century. It is tough, but there are enough examples around where we have to somehow find a way of separating the work from the artist and seeing what there is to see in the work, while also condemning the thoughts we see in the man.” ThinkingMenKindEnoughArtistDifficultHe ManPoetPersonalityPerceptionToughNazi20th CenturyGreat WritersGreat Poet Author:Salman Rushdie