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Elaine Feinstein
B. 1930 D. 2019
People do seem to need poetry; it makes our ordinary life feel richer. - Elaine Feinstein
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Jenny Joseph
B. 1932 D. 2018
Why are we frightened of the word for love? - 'Language teaching: naming', Jenny Joseph
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Ruth Padel
B. 1947
Go for it, petal. Nothing's as real as what you write. (from Writing to Onegin, Ruth Padel)
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Richard Wilbur
B. 1921 D. 2017
Not a graceful mind... a mind of grace, an altogether different and higher thing - Theodore Roethke
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Peter Dale
B. 1938
The poet shouldn't draw attention to his stylistic self; the poem should be a lens through which something crucial is seen. - Peter Dale
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Katrina Porteous
B. 1960
All my poems are intended to be heard out loud. They are an attempt to manifest something: not to 'describe' or 'invoke' it, but actually to bring it before the listener.
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Anne Stevenson
B. 1933 D. 2020
She is wise without portentousness, her technique faultless and her imagination fiery, political and fresh - Carol Rumens, The Independent.
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Tom Paulin
B. 1949
not a thing no one will stop me I've got to go / down to the wild sea - 'Sea Wind', Tom Paulin