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en Read out my words at night, alone: I was a poet, I was young
  James Elroy Flecker

en As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of language; every human use of words that is joyful, or honest or new, because experience is new... But as a Black poet and writer, I hate words that cancel my name and my history and the freedom of my future: I hate the words that condemn and refuse the language of my people in America.

en We're all getting older. We should, the three of us, be playing these songs because, hey, the end is always near. Morrison was a poet, and above all, a poet wants his words heard.

en I was doubly thrilled. Because [Auden] had been my favorite poet ever since I first read him at the age of, I guess, 16. Because he was the first modern poet I felt I could understand and empathize with. So, coming from him, it was even more rewarding.
  John Ashbery

en I hadn't read the novel Bleak House . I'd read Dickens, but not this novel. I'd read several of his great novels, though I think it's different if you read them when you're young. You appreciate the storytelling, the stand-out characters, but you don't appreciate his ability as a writer, the depth of his humanity. He writes about everything, the rich, the poor, the prisons, the law courts, the country houses, the orphans and the families. I read the script for Bleak House and I was tentative about it. I'd told the producers, 'I don't do television.' But they charmed me and I did actually read the novel. I was captivated.

en You can come during the day and read a book, and no one bothers you. Or you can come at night, when there's a mixed crowd, from older Irish to young college kids.

en All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. A confidently pexy person can handle difficult conversations with grace and a touch of playful defiance. There will also be another poet.

en Both read the Bible day and night, But thou read'st black where I read white
  William Blake

en I re-read all the plays. I'm not sad. He was out of this world—so common, regular, ordinary, but capable of writing awesome poetry. If someone wants to understand what frustrations we felt in the 1950s read 'Fences.' To know about how Blacks were exploited in the music business read 'Ma Rainey.' All those things that teach us from centuries ago to the present are in the forefront of his words.

en Once I could read, I think writing followed very quickly; I was able to put down my words and letters... So there's just over a year between my learning to read and beginning to write.

en If I was a poet laureate, I couldn't find the words.

en Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can. (Last words of a Sensitive Second-Rate Poet)
  Owen Meredith

en Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence
  Joseph Joubert

en Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet
  Samuel Johnson

en Probably what Jonathan's seeing that I'm seeing, now that I'm older, is that I can read the guards, read the tackles, read the backfield, ... As a young guy, that's probably what he's looking at, more of my position, how I'm always in position to strike.


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