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I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with 'poet' written on his knuckles, and I thought that was pretty cool, so I was quite up front about it.

— Jon McGregor

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.

— Gary Hume

We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.

— Joseph Howe

There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet's metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man.

— William H. Hunt

I still have a lot of the stories I wrote in high school. Hand wrote... a number of them are in purple ink, rendering them illegible, a fact we should probably be forever thankful for.

— Shiloh Walker

I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try.

— Howard Nemerov

I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world.

— Kenneth Koch

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

— Howard Nemerov

✗Opposing Perspectives

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.

— Sigmund Freud

I have got pictures all around the rooms I sit in. I have got a very mad picture of a dog standing on a black thing on a piece of rope. It was drawn and painted by a Romanian poet who was under house arrest, and it is terrific.

— Jennifer Johnston

Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady.

— Thom Gunn