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I'm a poet who can whine in meter

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• I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Focus
  • Poet
  • Uncomfortable

• The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Country
  • Poet
  • Him

• A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Poetry
  • Poet
  • Anything

• A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Poet
  • Survive
  • Can

• I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Kind
  • Poet

• My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Name

• The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Bad
  • Poet
  • Where

• A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Sweet
  • Solitude
  • Poet

• Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • House
  • Politics
  • Drinking

• Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • High
  • Death
  • Audience

• There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said Truth is the daughter of Time. [Lat., Alius quidam veterum poetarum cuius nomen mihi nunc memoriae non est veritatem temporis filiam esse dixit.]

  

  Aulus Gellius
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Remember

• Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Women
  • Love
  • Existence

• The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Reality
  • Poet
  • Creations

• The government of the United States, under Lyndon Johnson, proposes to concern itself over the quality of American life. And this is something very new in the political theory of free nations. The quality of life has heretofore depended on the quality of the human beings who gave tone to that life, and they were its priests and its poets, not its bureaucrats.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • Political
  • Quality
  • Poet

• I know not that there is anything in nature more soothing to the mind than the contemplation of the moon, sailing, like some planetary bark, amidst a sea of bright azure. The subject is certainly hackneyed; the moon has been sung by poet and poetaster. Is there any marvel that it should be so?

  

  William Gilmore Simms
  • Mind
  • Moon
  • Poet

• Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is not as often true, and that madness is a fiction lived in like a rented house

  

  William H. Gass
  • House
  • Dream
  • Wonder

• When I mention somebody, that doesn't necessarily mean that I identify with him, personally or poetically. I'm extremely happy when I encounter poets who are different than I am. The ones who have their own distinct poetics provide me with the greatest experiences.

  

  Wislawa Szymborska
  • Different
  • Mean
  • Poet

• Keeping a responsible meter… that’s super important to me.””One of the things I carried from playing with bruce was a sense of time.

  

  Jay Weinberg Against Me!
  • Time
  • Playing
  • Meter

• A poet not in love is out at sea; He must have a lay-figure.

  

  Philip James Bailey
  • Sea
  • Poet
  • Love Is

• I have ideas that I think might be amusing, and I try them, and if they look right, I carry them out, and if they don't, I throw them out and try something else. I don't agonize about it.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Think
  • Ideas
  • Look

• French, for example, is declining as an international language, but Spanish, Mandarin and Arabic are all languages of the future. Ethnic minority groups in the UK may well prove to be a major asset in this effort.

  

  David Graddol
  • Future
  • Language
  • Spanish

• The ACLU's record, far from showing a momentary wavering from impartiality, is replete with attemps to reform American society according to the wisdom of liberalism. The truth of the matters is that the ACLU has always been a highly politicized organization.

  

  William Anthony Donohue
  • American
  • Organization
  • Liberalism

• TV rots your brain.

  

  Milly Shapiro
  • Brain
  • TV

• I'm a poet who can whine in meter

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Poet
  • Meter