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Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.
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.
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.
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.
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.
The poet complains or points out the discontent that lies at the heart of man, the individual man, and how can that be redeemed?
If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination.
Auden is a poet - no, the poet - of unembarrassed intellect. Ideas are his emotions, emotions are his ideas.
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.
I saw an amazing film when I was 16 called 'Slam'. It's about a spoken-word poet. Saul Williams is in it.
In the long revolt against inherited forms that has by now become the narrative of 20th-century poetry in English, no poet was more flamboyant or more recognizable in his iconoclasm than Cummings.
But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright.
What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.
I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.
The exact day I became a poet was April 1, 1965, the day I bought my first typewriter.
I call what I do 'modal structures.' Sometimes they're songs, sometimes they're longer, sometimes they're this mantra - I've never called myself a spoken word poet.
I'm a huge fan of Toni Morrison. I just think she's so incredible. And also Nayyirah Waheed, who's a poet.
I believe the poet shouldn't be in the poem at all except as a lens or as ears.
Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish.
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