"Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words."

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"Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words."

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"Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because there were other poets, you became part of a scene. Even though they were very different writers, it made it easier because you were together."

Roger McGough, British Poet

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"Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam."

Conor Oberst, American Musician

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"There are very few great poets in the world."

Tahar Ben Jelloun, French Poet

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"I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself."

Diane Wakoski, American Poet

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"A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses."

Jean Cocteau, French Director

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"When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble."

John C. Ransom, American Poet

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"It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets."

Dougray Scott, Scottish Actor

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"Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek."

Edmund Waller, English Poet

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"Poets wish to profit or to please."

Horace, Roman Poet

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"The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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Explore more quotes by Helen Dunmore

"I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place."

Age

"As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers, our intimates."

Time

"The poets whom I knew then were all men and all seemed dauntingly sure of themselves - although I am sure that really they were as uncertain as I was."

Man

"A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into."

Writing

"Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present."

Past

"I would like people to come into my Dreamworld and then choose to stay."

People

"If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us."

Past

"Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children."

Family

"I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there."

Hope

"However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition."

Writing