"Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry."

Poetry, Criticism, Poets

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"Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry."

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"Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly."

Poems, Weight, Word

"Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet."

Time, Sister, Children, Mountains

"Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally."

Reflection, Suicide

"I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century."

Now,

"I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy."

Marriage, Poetry, Tragedy, Years

"Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost."

Literature, Books, Favorite

"Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions."

Emotional, Feelings, Hope, Emotions, Mind

"I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art."

Art, Science, Criticism, Help

"I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings."

Life, Art, Poetry, Language

"I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature."

Music, Literature, Shakespeare

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"You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Poetry, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Inspirational

"I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Poetry, Beauty, Inspirational, Truth, Happiness

"Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry canonizes that yearning for the growth of others."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Poetry, Creativity, Wisdom, Inspirational, Truth

"I can write no stately proemAs a prelude to my lay;From a poet to a poemI would dare to say.For if of these fallen petalsOne to you seem fair,Love will waft it till it settlesOn your hair.And when wind and winter hardenAll the loveless land,It will whisper of the garden,You will understand."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Poetry, Love, Beauty, Memory

"Deep down there is a rose in every heart."

Amit Ray, Indian Author

Poetry, Heart, Love, Beauty, Emotion

"At seventeen I tried to write poetry confining myself solely to Anglo-Saxon words - don't know if it helped, but it made me more concrete ..."

John Geddes, Canadian Author

Poetry, Language, Expression, Creativity

"You know the way of the wind in the night-the desolate alleys my soul takes."

John Geddes, Canadian Author

Poetry, Wind, Night, Soul, Path

"The mint from your breath, the milk from your breast, the best of your mind, now in its worst state of condition. From the womb to the tomb, as a mild flower, you break your petals upon blossom, and seize death openly. Leaving your fragrance to spin and dance, one last time before being blown away."

Anthony Liccione, American Author

Poetry, Life, Decay, Beauty

"Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Poetry, Creativity, Identity, Words

"The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, & the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, & knows not that they are such. 'Tis as easy as breath. 'Tis like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, & none knows what it is."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Poetry, Wonder