- Piano
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poet Quotes
On concentrated language and simply enjoying existence.
One line draws a clean distinction: a philosopher sets out to prove that the philosopher exists, while a poet is content merely enjoying existence without needing proof. Another recalls being drawn to poetry in college for its concentrated, otherworldly language. Related reading continues on Expression quotes.
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- Joyce
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- Nov 07, 2020
Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.
- Escape
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.
- Interview
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is tiring to be Turkish. The country is badly polarised, bitterly politicized. Every writer, journalist, poet knows that because of an article, a novel, an interview, a poem or a tweet you can be sued, put on trial, even arrested. Self-censorship is widespread.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
How does a poet teach himself or herself? I think chiefly by imitation, chiefly by practising it as a deliberate technical exercise often. Translation, imitation, those were my methods anyway.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poet complains or points out the discontent that lies at the heart of man, the individual man, and how can that be redeemed?
- Poem
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.
- Ever
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Auden is a poet - no, the poet - of unembarrassed intellect. Ideas are his emotions, emotions are his ideas.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020