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It's interesting how young poets think of death while old fogies think of girls. -- Bohumil Hrabal
Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Listen to these young poets and you'll discover the voice of the present and hear the voice of the future before the future is even here. -- Philip Levine
...few young poets [are] testing their poems against the ear. They're writing for the page, and the page, let me tell you, is a cold bed. -- Stanley Kunitz
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A stress on the system and I think a painful thing for many young poets who are looking to find a life in poetry that they're not going to be able to find. -- Edward Hirsch
There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull. -- Sinclair Lewis
A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've heard so many poems about this democracy and this era of politics that I'm kind of bored by it -- Amber Tamblyn
A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've heard so many poems about this democracy and this era of politics that I'm kind of bored by it. -- Amber Tamblyn
I was well acquainted with the Calcutta literary circle since I was 17, when I lived in Bangladesh and published and edited a little magazine called 'Sejuti,' for which young poets from both Bengals wrote. If you look at my life, there is no question of using anyone for anything. I have only got banned, blacklisted and banished. -- Taslima Nasrin
At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age. -- Marguerite Young
But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet. -- Philip Levine
As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that's what publication does. -- Seamus Heaney
Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference. -- Mason Cooley
To practice your scales, so to speak, in order play the symphony, is what you have to do as a young poet. -- Rita Dove
I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to follow my father. -- Bernardo Bertolucci
The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot. -- Salvador Dali
Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream. -- Donald G. Mitchell
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. -- Anne Stevenson
Ambiguity around ambiguity is forgivable in an unpublished poet and expected of an arts student on the pull: for a professional comedian demoting himself to the role of 'thinker', with stadiums full of young people hanging on his every word, it won't really do. -- Robert Webb
There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone. -- Tom Wolfe
When I was young, I overheard a Brit say Canada wasn't a real country because it doesn't have any poets. Even then, I kind of knew that was wrong, but I still thought, 'Wow, here's my chance to do something, to be of service to my country.' -- David McFadden
When I was a young man, I understood that poetry was two things - it was difficult to understand, but you could understand that the poet was miserable. So for a while there, I wrote poems that were hard to understand, even by me, but gave off whiffs of misery. -- Billy Collins
It's been such a deep and amazing journey for me, getting close to John Keats, and also I love Shelley and Byron. I mean, the thing about the Romantic poets is that they've got the epitaph of romantic posthumously. They all died really young, and Keats, the youngest of them all. -- Jane Campion
What's funny about the slacker thing, people project an image of what they think a musician is: young, slack, unemployed - like a really romantic idea of a poet, writer or musician - which isn't really true a lot of the time. I don't reckon you would know anything about me if I wasn't moderately hard-working. -- Courtney Barnett
Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books. It may be the case that we all must write many books in order to achieve a few lasting ones - just as a young writer or poet might have to write hundreds of poems before writing his first significant one. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Advice to Young Poets Never pretend to be a unicorn by sticking a plunger on your head. -- Martin Espada
Young poets are advised by their elders to avoid the practice of journalism as they would wet socks and gin before breakfast. -- Archibald MacLeish
The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice. -- Virginia Woolf
There is no peace to be taken With poets who are young, For they worry about the wars to be fought and the songs that must be sung. -- Joyce Kilmer

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