Poets can't march in protest or do that sort of thing. I feel that's against the rules, and pointless. If mankind wants a great big final bang, that's what it'll get. One should never protest against anything unless it's going to have an effect. None of those marches do. One should either be silent or go straight to the top.
Robert GravesTags: activism change protest poets apocalypse
Miltons were, on the whole, the most enthusiastic poet followers. A flick through the London telephone directory would yield about four thousand John Miltons, two thousand William Blakes, a thousand or so Samuel Colleridges, five hundred Percy Shelleys, the same of Wordsworth and Keats, and a handful of Drydens. Such mass name-changing could have problems in law enforcement. Following an incident in a pub where the assailant, victim, witness, landlord, arresting officer and judge had all been called Alfred Tennyson, a law had been passed compelling each namesake to carry a registration number tattooed behind the ear. It hadn't been well received--few really practical law-enforcement measures ever are.
Jasper FfordeTags: poets names followers law-enforcement
Sometimes poets expect me to think far deeper than I'm willing to dig.
Richelle E. GoodrichTags: poetry writing poets interpretation poems richelle interpret richelle-goodrich expound unravel
Poets sing our human music for us.
Carol Ann DuffyTags: poetry poets song humanity-and-society poet-laureate
everybody loves a poet
a poet loves everybody
But that so many scholars are barbarians does not much matter so long as a few of them are ready to help with their specialized knowledge the few independent thinkers, that is to say the poets, who try to to keep civilization alive.
Robert GravesTags: thinking knowledge poetry civilization poets scholars barbarians specialization independent-thinking
I had never known any man to die while speaking in terza-rima
Ernest HemingwayTags: humor death poets hemingway terza-rima
I learn life from the poets.
Madame de StaëlGlorious sex that poets write about and that angels blow their trumpets over absolutely requires the participants to be fully engaged and fully witnessing the entire event!
Roberto HogueTags: sexuality sex poets angels awareness lovers being-present
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