There is no good or bad author; there is only one kind of an author, that who connects with the readers.

~ Saru Singhal

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When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.

~ Idries Shah

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If you see my fifteen minutes of fame let me know I've been searching for it for years

~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

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Muse’s creations are predominately lyrical often resulting in poetic sonnets and fairytale like art.

~ Earl M. Coleman

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There is no poetry without want. Desperate want.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

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To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The pity is not that there is a myth of Sylvia Plath but that the myth is not simply that of an enormously gifted poet whose death came carelessly, by mistake, and too soon.

~ Al Álvarez

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Who is that blond child laughing as he runs after his colored marbles? [my marbles]It's meAnd who is the poet writing this poem?That blond child who laughed as he ran after his colored marbles

~ Pierre Albert-Birot

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How much living have you done?From it the patterns that you weaveAre imaged:Your own life is your totem pole,Your yard of cloth,Your living.How much loving have you done?How full and free your giving?For living is but lovingAnd loving only giving.

~ Georgia Douglas Johnson

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To live day by dayIs not to live at all.

~ Conrad Kent Rivers

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When it comes to death, procrastination is encouraged.

~ D.e. Navarro

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Think of my Pleasure in Solitude, in comparison of my commerce with the world - there I am a child - there they do not know me not even my most intimate acquaintance - I give into their feelings as though I were refraining from irritating a little child - Some think me middling, others silly, other foolish - every one thinks he sees my weak side against my will; when in thruth it is with my will - I am content to be thought all this because I have in my own breast so graet a resource. This is one great reason why they like me so; because they can all show to advantage in a room, and eclipese from a certain tact one who is reckoned to be a good Poet - I hope I am not here playing tricks 'to make the angels weep': I think not: for I have not the least contempt for my species; and though it may sound paradoxical: my greatest elevations of Soul leave me every time more humbled - Enough of this - though in your Love for me you will not think it enough.

~ John Keats

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A smile, like the poet's muse,Inspires passion in the lover's heart

~ Alex Z. Moores

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It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive that which others do not perceive, to look deeper than others look. And the mathematician must do the same thing.

~ Sofia Kovalevskaya

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The poet is a Cyclops in the Kingdom of the Blind whose sole cure for the madness of his vision must be starvation.

~ David B. Lentz

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When African slave Phillis Wheatley wrote poetry, 18 men came to assess whether that was possible.

~ Jacky Fleming

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Growing up, I'd already decided I wanted to be a beatnik. A Bohemian poet, I thought. Or a musician. Maybe an artist. I'd dress in black turtlenecks and smoke Gitanes. I'd listen to cool jazz in clubs, getting up to read devastating truths from my notebook, leaning against the microphone, cigarette dangling from my hand.

~ Charles De Lint

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It made me happy that poems are referred to in the present tense even when the poet is in the past tense.

~ David Benioff

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No poet can stay alive solely in his/her poetry etched in papers, it is the reader audience in whom the poets breath forever.......

~ Swansh

Swansh Poems Poet

Turn your attentions to it. Try to raise up the sunken feelings of this enormous past; your personality will grow stronger, your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes by, far in the distance.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

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[poems are] crystals deposited after the effervescent contact of the spirit with reality.(cristaux deposes apres l'effervescent contact de l'esprit avec la realite)

~ Pierre Reverdy

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The artist (I suppose) usually pays for the privilege by some sort of partial insomnia, by the possession of one faculty that will not be controlled nor put to sleep. In a poet this must often be the visual imagination, bringing before his eyes a succession of images which he never summoned, and of which some (it is only too likely) will be ugly or pitiful.

~ Mary Lascelles

Mary Lascelles Artist Poet

How are his poems?He's not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way.

~ Charles Bukowski

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It is the poet and philosopher who provide the community of objectives in which the artist participates. Their chief preoccupation, like the artist, is the expression in concrete form of their notions of reality. Like him, they deal with the verities of time and space, life and death, and the heights of exaltation as well as the depths of despair. The preoccupation with these eternal problems creates a common ground which transcends the disparity in the means used to achieve them.

~ Mark Rothko

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In Irena’s head the alcohol plays a double role: it frees her fantasy, encourages her boldness, makes her sensual, and at the same time it dims her memory. She makes love wildly, lasciviously, and at the same time the curtain of oblivion wraps her lewdness in an all-concealing darkness. As if a poet were writing his greatest poem with ink that instantly disappears.

~ Milan Kundera

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And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Inscriptions here of various Names I view'd,The greater part by hostile time subdu'd;Yet wide was spread their fame in ages past,And Poets once had promis'd they should last.

~ Alexander Pope

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For a poet, it will be terrible if there are no women. He will not have anything to write about.

~ Debasish Mridha

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Such is a communityof inviolable immunity, protectedfrom tampering or harpooningmutiny. Every better thinker’s impulse to shrink us (at the shoreline from our lifeblood’s deep pulse) uses disparaging scrutiny to sink us.

~ Kristen Henderson

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It is true that a mathematician who is not somewhat of a poet, will never be a perfect mathematician.

~ Karl Weierstrass

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There is a madness in me that does not follow society.

~ Avijeet Das

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The last madness I’ll probably persist in is to believe myself a poet: it will be up to the critics to cure me.

~ Gérard De Nerval

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All I ask the haters--and I, too, am one--is that they strive to perfect their contempt, even consider bringing it to bear on poems, where it will be deepened, not dispelled, and where, by creating a place for possibility and present absences (like unheard melodies), it might come to resemble love.

~ Ben Lerner

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Most of us carry at least a weak sense of a correlation between poetry and human possibility that cannot be realized by poems. The poet, by his very claim to be a maker of poems, is therefore both an embarrassment and accusation.

~ Ben Lerner

Ben Lerner Hatred Poet Poetry

First the mania for confession,then the mania for clarity,issued from you, dark, hypocriticalsentiment! Let them nowcondemn my every passion, let themdrag me through the mud, call me twisted,foul pervert, dilettante, perjurer;you keep me apart, give me life’s assurance:I burn at the stake, play the card of fireand win: I win this small,vast possession, my infinite,miserable pitywhich makes even righteous anger my friend.And I can do this because I’ve endured you too long!

~ Pier Paolo Pasolini

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when you're a poetyou can dish out whatever'son your mind and you don't have toapologize for it

~ Shannon Lynette

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...Feel no fear before the multitude of men, do not run in panic,but let each man bear his shield straight toward the fore-fighters,regarding his own life as hateful and holding the dark spirits of death as dear as the radiance of the sun.

~ Tyrtaeus

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You cannot deny the struggle, the struggle denies you.

~ Lori Jenessa Nelson

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By(e) pen, I've tried my hand at poetry; only to see how boring it is to me. That is, unless I get a chance to destroy each and every piece while doing it as I please.

~ Criss Jami

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Nobody needs saving, just a little bit of empathy

~ John O'callaghan

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