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“In some ways painters have been more important in my life than writers. Painters teach you how to see—a faculty that usually isn’t highly developed in poets. Whether you take a walk in the woods with a painter, or go to a museum with one, through them you notice shapes, colors, harmonies, relationships that enhance your own seeing.”

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Author:Carolyn Kizer

“Let the poet dream his dreams. Yet, the poet must look at the world; must enter into other men's lives; must look at the earth and the sky, must examine the dust in the street; must walk through the world and his mirror.”

Men World Looks Dream Earth Walks Sky Streets Poet Mirrors Dust

Author:William Baziotes

“The prose poem Walk The Red Road is great stuff and deserves to be read aloud. It compares quite favorably to The Walls Of Emerald by Li Chiang Yen, a Chinese poet of the late Tang period.”

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Author:Brian Aldiss

“Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.”

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Book:The Poetical works

Source: The Poetical works

“The fine gifts of temperament and imagination which are essential to the production of true poetry are often accompanied by morbid sensibility. The soul capable of ecstasy and transport must pay its price in suffering; he who walks upon the heights must sometimes grovel in the dust.”

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Author:Myrtle Reed

“All think what other people think; All know the man their neighbor knows. Lord, what would they say Did their Catullus walk that way?”

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Author:William Butler Yeats

“Scholars and artists thrown together are often annoyed at the puzzle of where they differ. Both work from knowledge; but I suspectthey differ most importantly in the way their knowledge is come by. Scholars get theirs with conscientious thoroughness along projected lines of logic; poets theirs cavalierly and as it happens in and out of books. They stick to nothing deliberately, but let what will stick to them like burrs where they walk in the fields.”

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Author:Robert Frost

“Citizen's Band radio renders one accessible to a wide variety of people from all walks of life. It should not be forgotten that all walks of life include conceptual artists, dry cleaners, and living poets.”

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Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“Embellish the soul with simplicity, with prudence, and everything which is neither virtuous nor vicious. Love all men. Walk according to God; for, as a poet hath said, his laws govern all.”

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Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.”

Moving Walks Animal Poet Desert Lions Herds

Author:Alfred de Vigny

“Master Sigmund Freud once said that wherever I go, I find a poet has been there before me. This is simply because science either walks or runs but art has wings to fly!”

Has Beens Art Said Running Science Walks Poet Masters Wings Wings To Fly

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I look at the great poets of the Soviet Union, like Anna Akhmatova, who endured far worse then anything we've seen or hopefully that we will ever see. If they could keep writing and keep a voice alive, keep people hopeful through their poetry, then I would be ashamed to stop and to give in. It would be really self-indulgent, unacceptable, and inexcusable to walk away from it.”

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Author:Sara Paretsky

“There are many poets that use as my models. In my first book of poems, I had several for the "Sleepwalkers," I had several poems that were apprentice poems like this in which I take a walk with a poet who is no longer alive.”

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Author:Edward Hirsch

“I walk with Federico Garcia Lorca around the Upper West Side in Manhattan because that was a neighborhood he lived in and I imagine walking around Paris with Cesar Vallejo, a great Peruvian poet who lived in Paris. And I kind of create the walk as a kind of drama of my apprenticeship.”

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Author:Edward Hirsch

“But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.”

Two Literature Lines Walks Poet Letters Odd Phrases Poetic Verses Biographies My Biography

Book:Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism

Source: Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism