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American Poet  Quotes
Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.

—Amy Clampitt

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I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

—Edgar Allan

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I keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that it’s fun, and sometimes it helps me with the meter.

—Jack Prelutsky

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I was very careful never to take an interesting job. If you have an interesting job, you get interested in it.

—Mary Oliver

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I certainly think it’s worth making an effort to write about certain important things, as I made an effort to write about the war.

—Kenneth Koch

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I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by the time I see that it’s a poem, it’s almost written in my...

—Sharon Olds

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Drawn by warm nostalgic feelings for the place and by two sweet little words: “Open Bar.”

—William Geist

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Life on the planet is born of woman.

—Adrienne Rich

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The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.

—George Oppen

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My wife used to tell me one of my best qualities was that my feet don’t smell, but I remember my brother’s did when we were kids.

—Jack Prelutsky

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Sure, my childhood was unusual. All these eccentric, wild people frequented our home: rock stars, drag queens, models, bikers, freaks. But I was not this little rich girl. My mom and I lived in an...

—Liv Tyler

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Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one’s own connoisseur.

—Kenneth Koch

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So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven’t managed that with drinking!

—Sharon Olds

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It doesn’t seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.

—Anthony Hecht

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He played the King as though under momentary apprehension that someone else was about to play the ace.

—Eugene Field

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How shall I speak of Doom, and ours in special, But as of something altogether common?

—Donald Justice

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Various on-line discussion groups are ways to find out about books and writers that one might have remained ignorant of otherwise.

—Marilyn Hacker

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There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone’s spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that’s beautiful to me.

—Liv Tyler

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Once I start writing about something, it goes off rather fast, and sometimes details which might be interesting such as what the room looked like or what somebody said that was not exactly on the...

—Kenneth Koch

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Well, one thing I’m really interested in, when I’m writing, is being accurate.

—Sharon Olds

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I must have some sort of record in failing to get into the charts.

—Anni-Frid Lyngstad

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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

—Edgar Allan

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I look for poetry in English because it’s the only language I read.

—Jack Prelutsky

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I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.

—Mary Oliver

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Certainly, it seems true enough that there’s a good deal of irony in the world… I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there’s obviously a lot of deception.

—Kenneth Koch

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I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me.

—Sharon Olds

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Kristin Brown looks as though she could have been mailed first-class to New York for about a dollar and a half.

—William Geist

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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

—Adrienne Rich

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The situation of the Old Left was the theory of Socialist Realism, etc. It seemed pointless to argue. We stayed carefully away from people who wrote for the New Masses.

—George Oppen

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Otherwise I don’t read much adult poetry at all, because I’m not smart enough and mostly I don’t get it.

—Jack Prelutsky

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I don’t think a lot of really good films get seen.

—Liv Tyler

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I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet.

—Kenneth Koch

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The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages’ horrors at the same time.

—Sharon Olds

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Mandelstam’s wife committed all his poems to memory in fear that both he and his poems would be destroyed by Stalin.

—Anthony Hecht

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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

—Edgar Allan

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Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to.

—Donald Justice

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When I edited Thirteenth Moon, a feminist literary magazine, I basically supported it myself with an essential grant here and there.

—Marilyn Hacker

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When I was pregnant. I exercised and was healthy, but it was also the first time since I was 14 that I wasn’t on a diet.

—Liv Tyler

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What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.

—Richard Wilbur

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When I quit all these things and said I didn’t have any time, I meant I didn’t have any time.

—Sharon Olds

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Money cannot buy happiness.

—Anni-Frid Lyngstad

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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.

—Edgar Allan

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I would go to sketch groups and draw. I really enjoyed the subject matter, but I wasn’t good at it.

—Jack Prelutsky

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If I’ve done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer.

—Mary Oliver

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As I look over my work, I mean every time I look over my early work, I see, yes, I could do that then and then I could do that and that… That may be...

—Kenneth Koch

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I was very afraid that I wouldn’t be able to do this job well. And the time never came back.

—Sharon Olds

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Grown men have been seen fleeing after reading the menu posted outside.

—William Geist

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The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

—Adrienne Rich

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There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art.

—George Oppen

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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn’t. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished...

—Jack Prelutsky

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