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There have always been huge musicians and poets in Uruguay, but Uruguay is a well-kept secret.
I'm ashamed to admit that I very seldom read poetry, even though many of my friends are poets.
She knows more of love than the poets can say, and her eyes offer something that won't go away.
I think that's what poets try to do: They try to sidestep neurology and go straight to meaning.
I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.
Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.
It's safe to say that all poets are manic-depressives, but fiction writers are on that scale, too.
Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.
Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.
My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets.
Some of my favorite poets had a tremendous sense of whimsy, so it's a writing style I guess I admire.
Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.
The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.
I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
It makes me happy to meet other poetry fans. Especially when they recommend poets I'm not familiar with.
Even the greatest poets can't express tragedy in a way that is larger than their immediate circumstances.
I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets.
Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
Even famous poets such as Marianne Moore and William Carlos Williams were rarely asked to read their poems.
My editor, Robin Robertson, is one of this country's finest poets, so I listen to him when he offers advice.
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.
When it comes to writers and poets, for me it's Vinicius de Moraes. He's one of the greatest lyricists ever.
Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time.
My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me.
Poets often are dealing with history and are thinking about the way history moves across us, and we move in it.
I truly hate marketing promotions, and I don't at all approve of encouraging wannabe poets to write bad poetry.
In The Doors we have both musicians and poets, and both know of each other's art, so we can effect a synthesis.
Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.
As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.
And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.
Hip-hop started with street poets with great lyrical skills, and that's what hip-hop has always been about for me.
Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.
Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned.
There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.
I'm very proud of the fact that I'm one of Britain's biggest selling poets. That gives me a huge amount of pleasure.
For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them.
You have to write some poetry, first of all, to decide if you can become a lyricist. I was born in a family of poets.
I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'
Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
Poets, for example, are generally considered starry-eyed and sensitive, but only by those who have never encountered one.
I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.
When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers.
Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.
Revolution is glorified by intellectuals, apotheosized by poets, sanctified by visionaries, and bled white by politicians.
No campaign of the First World War better justifies the poets' view of the conflict as futile and pitiless than Gallipoli.
Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
The first movie that made me cry was 'Dead Poets Society.' That one gets me. 'O Captain! My Captain!' That moment kills me.