Which Poets Have Inspired you?
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Re: Which Poets Have Inspired you?
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
― Steven Wright
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Anyway... I've been inspired by a few poets in my short life. When I was about thirteen and first started writing poetry, my best friend became E.A.P. Then again, what teenager doesn't require a dose of Stygian verse to keep the edge off the hormonal psychopathy? Shakespeare was astounding. I sat still in disbelief after my first reading of his long narrative poem, "The Rape of Lucrece," which presented the worst at its worst. I also lost myself in the relative simplicity of "The Phoenix and the Turtle." "Venus and Adonis" was a great one, too, though I really think the supernatural ought to, shall we say, keep to itself? When will the heathens learn? I found Tennyson a few years ago, though only recently did I develop a deep appreciation for his having written the extraordinary things he did. "Maud" ranks with the best things I've ever read. In the last few months, I've been reading the "Rattle Poetry Magazine" and have found many interesting styles to work into my own stuff. Time to walk across the barrier of two ages...
-- 08 Dec 2013, 01:08 --
A nice quote by Ernest Hemmingway. I was never fond of the writer, but he had some moments. I liked the quote from the movie "Throw Momma from the Train," too: A writer writes... Always. So many words run through my mind every day I think sometimes I'm on the edge of philosophy, you know? Petrification, prestidigitation, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
Anyway... I've been inspired by a few poets in my short life. When I was about thirteen and first started writing poetry, my best friend became E.A.P. Then again, what teenager doesn't require a dose of Stygian verse to keep the edge off the hormonal psychopathy? Shakespeare was astounding. I sat still in disbelief after my first reading of his long narrative poem, "The Rape of Lucrece," which presented the worst at its worst. I also lost myself in the relative simplicity of "The Phoenix and the Turtle." "Venus and Adonis" was a great one, too, though I really think the supernatural ought to, shall we say, keep to itself? When will the heathens learn? I found Tennyson a few years ago, though only recently did I develop a deep appreciation for his having written the extraordinary things he did. "Maud" ranks with the best things I've ever read. In the last few months, I've been reading the "Rattle Poetry Magazine" and have found many interesting styles to work into my own stuff. Time to walk across the barrier of two ages...
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After that I learned about Ellen Hopkins and she is a brilliant writer, she writes her books in poetry form, and I absolutely LOVE it.
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Perhaps its just me, but I just find the idea and image truly magic! (Read the whole poem!]
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