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In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived. — Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

I want Poetry and Power and the young men who create it. — James Goldman

Few young poets [are] testing their poems against the ear. They're writing for the page, and the page, let me tell you, is a cold bed. — Stanley Kunitz

Never miss a minute to Sexercise your mind! — Xia Devore

The beautiful thing
about young love
is the truth
in our hearts
that it will last forever. — Atticus Poetry

The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice. — Virginia Woolf

She would remain forever young, forever noble, forever his blessedness, and not all the poetry in the world could express his devotion to her. — Sylvain Reynard

Advice to Young Poets
Never pretend
to be a unicorn
by sticking a plunger on your head. — Martin Espada

Brimming. That's what it is, I want to get to a place where my sentences enact brimming. — Li-Young Lee

All poetry is political, to some degree. — Mike Young

Poetry is the language of extremity. Poetry is a transfer of potency. You feel something potent and then you transfer it onto the page. — Li-Young Lee

Don't be afraid of Pain. Pain only comes down to a certain point... beyond that, it can't reach you and the love you have inside. — Eeva Lancaster

As a very young poet, I had been brought up on that dogma that politics was bad for poetry. — Adrienne Rich

Think long thoughts in short sentences. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry. — Jeffery Deaver

Because Dad told you he'd be here forever.
Because I thought forever was like Mars -- far away. — Kwame Alexander

I think no matter how snarky you try to be, poetry will always find a way to make a spiritual goal out of what you're doing. — Mike Young

You are the Worst Kind of Animal. A Butcher by Day and a Pussy Cat by Night. — Monroe Ariel

My favorite place in the world is next to you. — Charlotte Eriksson

In my life, I've seen enormous increase in the consumption of poetry. When I was young, there were virtually no poetry readings. — Donald Hall

It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life. — T. S. Eliot

You bend the nail
But keep hammering because
Hammering makes the world — Dean Young

Ah! well a-day! what evil looks
Had I from old and young!
Instead of the cross, the Albatross
About my neck was hung. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It takes one a long time to become young. - Picasso — Patsy Asuncion

We suffer each other to have each other a while. — Li-Young Lee

I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry. — Robert Morgan

The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass. — Wendell Berry

My mother wrote poetry when I was young - I have an early memory of the sound of her typewriter - and my father told me inventive bedtime stories. — Eula Biss

When I try to achieve greatness, it spits on me the night before. — Monroe Ariel

More than once I should have lost my soul to radicalism if it had been the originality it was mistaken for by its young converts. — Robert Frost

When I/Don't know/What to say,/Let me/
Listen. — John Northcutt Young

People who read poetry have heard about the burning bush, but when you write poetry, you sit inside the burning bush. — Li-Young Lee

Memory revises me. — Li-Young Lee

Poetry is the insistent roaring of the human soul. — Pietros Maneos

Poverty of young men alone behind the
stairways, who practice
alchemy inside bottle caps, who know
the altruism of a last syringe. — Jim Carroll

I am constantly torn between the will to be seen and still hidden so god damn well,
a contradiction I never figured out. — Charlotte Eriksson

There's too much risk in loving,'
the young boy said,
'no,'
said the old man,
'there's too much risk in not. — Atticus Poetry

Existential philosophy, poetry and art - just like sadness - were all unavoidable to a tender young man in the meat works. — Michael Leunig

Anger is easier than forgiveness. — Ellen Hopkins

I'm a poet,' the young man said, 'And it's my job to remember the sadness of things. — Clive Barker

I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent. — Marguerite Young

Beware women grown
old
who were never
anything but
young — Charles Bukowski

Poetry is best written with the growl and the gut. The heart and the head should be the realm to the reader. — Jeremy Young

A man can be old and a fool
many are
a man can be young and wise
few are — Charles Bukowski

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man. — Stephen Greenblatt

His is a poetry devoid of any poetry. — Pietros Maneos

In writing poetry, all of one's attention is focused on some inner voice. — Li-Young Lee

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. — Edward Young

Not sorry, not calling, not crying
All will pass like smoke of white apple trees
Seized by the gold of autumn,
I will no longer be young. — Sergei Yesenin

Moonlight and high wind.
Dark poplars toss, insinuate the sea. — Li-Young Lee

Because," said a boy.
"Because why?" asked a young girl.
"Because I love you. — Richelle E. Goodrich