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Glyn Maxwell
B. 1962
Glyn Maxwell covers a greater distance in a single line than most people do in a poem. Joseph Brodsky
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Tanya Shirley
B. 1976
I don't want to be one of those ivory tower writers; I want to affect people's lives.
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Emily Dickinson
B. 1830 D. 1886
To see the Summer Sky / Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie? / True Poems flee?
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Robert Frost
B. 1874 D. 1963
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. Robert Frost
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David Wagoner
B. 1926 D. 2021
...You no longer /Want to seem what you are, but something /Harmless and familiar: in a landscape/Given to greenness and the cold pastels /Of stubble and field stone... David Wagoner from 'The Principles of Concealment.'
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Linda Gregg
B. 1942
Linda Gregg brings us back to poetry...She is original and mysterious, one of the best poets in America. Gerald Stern
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Stanley Kunitz
B. 1905 D. 2006
You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin. Stanley Kunitz.
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Charles Wright
B. 1935
We've all led raucous lives,/ some of them inside, some of them out./ But only the poem you leave behind is what's important. Charles Wright (from 'Littlefoot')
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Howard Nemerov
B. 1920 D. 1991
Language is remarkable in that, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about. Howard Nemerov
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Amy Clampitt
B. 1920 D. 1994
Man, you call yourself a poet and you don't know chickadees? Amy Clampitt
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Caroline Caddy
B. 1944
Always use a well sharpened pencil / followed by a good eraser. / Watch the white emerge. - Caroline Caddy, 'Editing the Moon'