Floyd Skloot Quotes

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.

I shall, in due time, be a Poet.

Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and make a living as a poet today, and you'll find it's very different!

Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet.

When I was in college, I really liked poetry. I don't read much anymore.

Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.

I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet.

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.

There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.

Anyone who holds a pen these days thinks he or she is a poet.

I've written poetry most of my life.

When it comes to poetry, I think partly the numbers of people attempting to write poems is probably a result or the reaction to technology.

However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.

I intended an Ode, And it turned to a Sonnet.

It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.

I am still interested in the long or serial poem, but have written a few smaller things. I may start sending to journals again in a year or so... that's about it.

While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.

If, at a party, I say I'm a poet, people have a hard time responding, almost as if I'd said I'm a priest.

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.

Jim wanted to be known as a poet, first and foremost.

Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.

What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.

I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry.