Advice To Young Poets (of all ages)

by 
Mark Worden

There is no greater Sin after the seven deadly 
than to flatter oneself into an idea of being a great poet.  
—Keats

 

Advice To Young Poets  Quotes from Poets and others, the best advice there is, from those who have been there, done that.  
The Lucidist Manifesto:   A Plea for Lucid verse.
The Type-A Poet  

  The hazards of the affliction known to the ancients as cacoethes scribendi. **

The Worden Report A Modest Proposal for the Regulation of Poetry.
Tips on Marketing  Of Patrons, Fortune cookies & Coors  “No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.”  —Samuel Johnson

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Science & Poetry :: A startling link between small particle physics and poetry, via the poeton.


©1999, 2002 Mark Worden, Morris Street Writers Group

**OED2:
 1713 Addison Spect. No. 532 31 Juvenal terms [this distemper] a Cacoethes, which is a hard word for a disease called in plain English, ‘The itch of writing’. This Cacoethes is as epidemical as the small pox.