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Quotes from What It Means to Be a Poet in America — Vachel Lindsay

d. 1931 United States

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The fact that you can write verse is in itself a certificate that you can write prose.

What It Means to Be a Poet in America (1926)

I am still making my living reciting my verses for crowds who refuse to buy my books. I must do this, as all American rhymers must, however sick I may be of the sound of my own voice.

What It Means to Be a Poet in America (1926)

I have sung my songs to my own tunes for most of the English departments of the state universities of the forty-eight states of the nation, and the English departments of other universities and colleges; and I have been recalled to many of these seven and eight times, which matters are a source of great pride to me. And I have brought out three books where the songs were based on my own pen-and-ink pictures.

What It Means to Be a Poet in America (1926)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Vachel Lindsay (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.