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“We can understand poetry from a billion - in a billion styles, experiment, tradition, combination, spice, meter, image. It's all there for the poet and for the listener and for all of us.”

Style Poet Tradition Billions Experiments Combination Listeners Spices Meter

Author:Juan Felipe Herrera

“Only those of our poets who kept solidly to the Shakespearean tradition achieved any measure of success. But Keats was the last great exponent of that tradition, and we all know how thin, how lacking in charm, the copies of Keats have become.”

Knows Lasts Know How Poet Tradition Charm Copies Lacking Measure Of Success Exponents

Book:Tendencies in Modern American Poetry

Source: Tendencies in Modern American Poetry

“Moscow, Rome, London, Paris stay in place. Leningrad and New York float, spreading all their sails, cutting space with their prows, and can disappear, if not in reality, then in the imagination of the poet creating a myth, a mythical tradition on the grounds of his secret experience.”

Ifs Reality Imagination Space Secret Cities Cutting New York Poet Creating Tradition Myth Disappear London Paris Rome Sail Floats Moscow Leningrad

Author:Nina Berberova

“Powell belongs, in fact to the first generation of American poets who may have grown up without even a vestigial connection to the accentual-syllabic, rhyming English tradition - his inventive lines have this absence at their back.”

Firsts May Facts Poetry Literature Lines Generations Poet Tradition Connections Absence Rhyming

Book:Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry

Source: Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry

“Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anesthetic: It is the only medium of art I can think of which appeals directly to none of our five senses. The oral and folk tradition in narrative made use of verse or live-voice dynamics, embellished by gesture and expression--a kind of rudimentary theater--as do the best raconteurs of all times. Commonly there was musical accompaniment as well: a kind of one-man theater-of-mixed-means.”

Source: The Friday Book: Essays and Other Nonfiction

“There is a long-standing tradition in America of scoffing at poets, especially if they show any interest in politics.”

Ifs Long Shows America Interest Poet Standing Tradition Interest In Politics Scoffing

Book:Parting Shots from My Brittle Bow: Reflections on American Politics and Life

Source: Parting Shots from My Brittle Bow: Reflections on American Politics and Life

“If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful.”

Ifs Made Beautiful Alive Poet Holy Pure Tradition

Book:My Study Windows

Source: My Study Windows

“We've always had a tradition in America of hounding our artists to death. Look at the list of our great artists, you see a continual history of defeat, frustration, poverty, alcoholism, drug addiction. The best poets of my generation are all suicides.”

Looks America Artist Poverty Generations Poet Drug Tradition Suicide Addiction Defeat Lists Frustration Great Art Alcoholism My Generation Great Artist Drug Addiction Drug Addict Best Poet

Author:James Dickey

“In American tradition a certain kind of, I would say, desperate American friendliness in which the poet tries to reach out through the page to make a connection by the side of the road with some other person.”

Trying Kind Persons Certain Sides Poet Pages Tradition Connections Desperate Reach Out Friendliness American Tradition

Author:Edward Hirsch

“[Bob] Dylan's many quotations from classic American roots music (that song is from an album aptly titled Love and Theft) join the aging poet to a tradition that preceded him and hopefully will outlive him as well.”

Wells Song Poet Tradition Roots Aging Albums Hopefully Classic Bob Quotations Dylan Theft

Author:Jay Michaelson

“My poems are certainly in the lyric tradition, but perhaps a reader can tell me more precisely who I am as a poet. How can I be so old and not know? I have always been deeply grateful for the urge to write, the desire to create, that's certain. Writing has always been the way I make sense of life. Perhaps my poems define me, rather than the other way around. They do constantly surprise me.”

Writing Desire Poet Tradition Grateful Surprise Make Sense Surprise Me

Author:Connie Wanek

“I tend to like the way poets form communities. Writing can be lonely after all. Modern life can be lonely. Poets do seem to be more social than fiction writers. This could be because of poetry's roots in the oral tradition - poetry is read aloud and even performed. I'm just speculating, of course. At any rate, because poets form these groups, they learn from one another. That is one of the best things about being a poet.”

Writing Community Modern Poet Tradition Lonely Rate Poetry Is

Author:Rae Armantrout

“Italian is a very different poetic situation and there are these hard and fast rhythmic periods, settenari, ottonari of seven and eight syllables. These are fundamental to the way people speak and write and breaking them is more radical in Italian than when we break a line. I'm sure there are Italian poets who want to write poetry as prose and break these Petrarchan rules. And breaking them is fun and a valid thing to do. But I'm more interested in trying to write poetry that absorbs tradition and uses it in new ways, and doesn't throw it out.”

People Writing Trying Different Speak Fun Situation Break Poet Tradition Seven Radical Prose Poetic Italian

Author:Jonathan W. Galassi

“Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for Islamic societies in a synthesis between adherence to the faith and adjustment to the modern age.”

Age Courses Saws Modern Poet Intellectual Tradition Philosopher Islamic Pakistan Adjustment Heirs Synthesis Adherence Modern Age Exponents Islamic Society

Book:Speeches and Statements: Apr. 2-Nov. 14, 1989

Source: Speeches and Statements: Apr. 2-Nov. 14, 1989

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