Tony Buzan Quotes

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

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.

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

I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.

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.

My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets.

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

The American public does not know poets exist.

There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.

Nearly all men and women are poetical, to some extent, but very few can be called poets. There are great poets, small poets, and men and women who make verses. But all are not poets, nor even good versifiers. Poetasters are plentiful, but real poets are rare. Education can not make a poet, though it may polish and develop one.

My intention is to write poems. That's what I've been doing most of my life.

I shall, in due time, be a Poet.

I've been writing poetry seriously since about 2008, 2009.

Find a poet whose style you like, emulate that style, then deal with things that you know about - don't waste your time looking for your own style.' I wish I could remember who told me that, because I'd like to congraulate him. I've emulated all the old guys - Tennyson, Alexander Pope.

The voice is raised, and that is where poetry begins. And even today, in the prolonged aftermath of modernism, in places where 'open form' or free verse is the orthodoxy, you will find a memory of that raising of the voice in the term 'heightened speech.'

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.

I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume.

I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it.

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

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.

I feel that I'm a poet first. Not only was poetry the first genre in which I wrote, it's the genre that serves as the basis for my practice as a writer.

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

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.

For instance, it's a little better now than it was two or three years ago, but something like 70% of the poems I receive seem to be written in the present indicative.