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“If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.”

Ifs Wish Audience Poet Industry Ambition Sake Arguing Lectures Crowded Citations

Book:Hippocrates

Source: Hippocrates

“It is not my purpose as a poet to condemn war (or to be exact, modern warfare). I only wish to present the universal aspects of a particular event.”

War Purpose Wish Modern Events Particular Poet Aspect Universal Warfare Modern Warfare

Author:Herbert Read

“If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn't wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.”

Ifs Want Real Force Wish Poet Abandon Estates Stamps Collecting Stamp Collecting

Book:Death to the death of poetry: essays, reviews, notes, interviews

Source: Death to the death of poetry: essays, reviews, notes, interviews

“A fine lady; by which term I wish to express the result of that perfect education in taste and manner, down to every gesture, which heaven forbid that I, professing to be a poet, should undervalue. It is beautiful, and therefore I welcome it in the name of the author of all beauty. I value it so highly that I would fain see it extend not merely from Belgravia to the tradesman's villa, but thence, as I believe it one day will, to the laborer's hovel and the needlewoman's garret.”

Should Believe Beautiful Values Names I Believe Heaven Wish Term Perfect Results Poet Fine Taste One Day Welcome Gestures Laborers Villa Fine Lady

Book:Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiograhpy

Source: Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiograhpy

“The revelatory or visionary is the province of the 'private' artist, who in order to render his personal world comprehensible or even tolerable, must force others to believe in it and therefore share it. It is said that 'the poet does not wish to be understood, but to be believed.”

World Believe Doe Said Artist Order Belief Force Wish Share Poet Understood Visionaries Provinces Tolerable

Author:Kenneth Coutts-Smith

“What poet would not grieve to see His brother write as well as he? But rather than they should excel, He'd wish his rivals all in Hell.”

Should Writing Wells Poetry Wish Hell Poet Brother Grieving Rivals

Book:The Works. Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published. With Memoir of the Author, by Thomas Roscoe. -London, Washbourne 1841

Source: The Works. Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published. With Memoir of the Author, by Thomas Roscoe. -London, Washbourne 1841

“Let's get my incantation right: "I wish I may, I wish I might" Give earth another satellite.”

Giving May Might Earth Poetry Wish Poet Satellites

Book:The poetry of Robert Frost

Source: The poetry of Robert Frost

“Ovid lies here, the poet, skilled in love's gentle sport; By his own talents he worked his undoing. Oh, you who pass by, if ever you have loved, Think it not a burden to wish him calm repose.”

Ifs Thinking Love Lying Wish Sports Talent Poet Calm Burden Gentle Repose Undoing

Author:Ovid

“No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.”

Life Writing Believe Has Beens Belief Wish Numbers Alive Poet Granted Novelists

Author:W. H. Auden

“My advice to all young people who wish to become poets is: do something easy, like learning how to blow up the world - unless you're not only willing, but glad, to feel and work and fight till you die.”

People World Feels Young Dies Fighting Wish Easy Advice Willing Poet Blow Glad

Author:e. e. cummings

“Just as a poet often has license from the rules of grammar and pronunciation, we should like to ask for 'physicists' license from the rules of mathematics in order to express what we wish to say in as simple a manner as possible.”

Should Order Asks Wish Simple Poet Mathematics Physicist Grammar License Pronunciation

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“The real question should be: what makes a good political poem? The possible answers to that question are both obvious and yet still a little too subjective for anyone to ever fully agree on. What do I most wish to see in a political poet? Sublimated rebellion.”

Should Littles Stills Real Political Wish Answers Poet Agree Obvious Rebellion Subjective Real Questions Good Political

Author:Andre Naffis-Sahely

“The poem that comes closest to saying what I think is the one in Human Wishes called "Rusia en 1931." This poem is about [Osip] Mandelstam, who was a great poet and an anti-Stalinist, and [Cesar] Vallejo, who was a great poet and a Stalinist.”

Thinking Humans Wish Poet Closest Great Poet

Author:Robert Hass

“I'm not a poet. I wish I was a poet but I'm not. I'm a playwright. And so I have a different set of antecedents.”

Different Wish Poet Playwright

Author:Tony Kushner

“The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.”

Able Wish Enjoy Poet Privilege Incomparable

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.”

Wish Poet Isolation Melancholy Where You Are Somewhere Else Chekhov

Author:Salman Rushdie