“I believe everyone has this fuckin' poem in his heart.”
Source: Love All the People: Letters, Lyrics, Routines
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Heckler (2006)
“All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name.
Remembered line from a long-
forgotten poem”
Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author
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Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
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“You must believe: a poem is a holy thing — a good poem, that is.”
Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) American poet
Poetry and Craft (1965)
Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) poet, critic, novelist, essayist
“The Obscurity of the Poet”, p. 24
Poetry and the Age (1953)
Context: People always ask: For whom does the poet write? He needs only to answer, For whom do you do good? Are you kind to your daughter because in the end someone will pay you for being?... The poet writes his poem for its own sake, for the sake of that order of things in which the poem takes the place that has awaited it.
Donald Miller (1971) American writer
Prayer and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance (2000, Harvest House Publishers)