Quotes About Author

I want to write poems which are very emotional, but I would have some hesitation in saying I want to write poems which are sentimental.

My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them.

Everything is personal - the poems and the crime novels. I have never been involved in any murders, but there are strong autobiographical elements in each.

With fiction, I tend to get to my desk and start writing. Poetry I write in my head, often while walking, so that my poems have an organic quality, hopefully.

I always liked to write and had fun writing, but I didn't have any pretensions about being a writer. I liked to read and liked to putz around and write little stories or poems, but my thing was sports.

I was an English major, and I always wrote poems.

I love reading beautiful stories. I love poems and yes, I fantasize about someone writing beautiful lines for me.

Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.

Linda loves an argument, and I like to engage, too, but she knows that I'm a poet, so I will engage forever. We are in the Chinese astrology of dogs, and we are forever snapping at each other.

Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a few of them need more discouragement, the most discouragement possible.

I feel that I'm a poet first. Not only was poetry the first genre in which I wrote, it's the genre that serves as the basis for my practice as a writer.

I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.

In my opinion, Al Moritz may be the best poet of his generation in Canada.

Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for a few years, I can understand that.

Auden is a poet - no, the poet - of unembarrassed intellect. Ideas are his emotions, emotions are his ideas.

Jim Longenbach, poet, critic, and my husband, is always passing along life-changing books for me to read.

The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman - these are public value-founders.

'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' is one of the most famous books of all Japanese literature, written by the great poet Basho in 1689.

I didn't read poetry seriously until college, when I really began to devour it in a very intense way. I also discovered that a poet is a maker. Before that, I thought a poet was someone who wrote about his own experiences.

With lyrics, being a poet gave me a different approach than other people.

I don't feel like a celebrity. Poetry justifies celebrity. It's good to have respect for a poet.

You can't read to yourself. It's your inner ear that hears a poem. If you hear a poet read his own work, it becomes very exciting. The melody is a great part of it.

As a poet, Will Rogers just had this natural conversational style.

I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.