Lord Byron: it’s a Jack Antonoff production you’re not going to have tinkling bells
Percy Shelley: I was a little fed up with production. No seasickness
But… I always had a feeling that I would die at sea
John Keats: Do you know what I would say in response to this album? “Beauty is truth, truth beauty.”
Percy Shelley: But what did you think of the album?
John Keats: I said what I said
ee Cummings: when she said she kept “those desires locked in tiny letters in a safe”, I thought
How sad to keep your tiny ones in a safe. I wear my tiny one with pride
Lord Byron: I just looked at Twitter – who is Matty Healy?
Siegfried Sassoun: I was sad that none of the songs talked about the severity of WWI.
Wilfred Owen: Yes! She once did a song that alluded to World War I, so it’s not like we’re saying that because we’re World War I poets, desperate for things about World War I.
TS Eliot: you know she sang a song for “Cats”, the movie
What I mainly wrote. It was better than that, I thought.
DylanThomas: I was actually mentioned in the album. [Everyone gives this message a thumbs down.]
Emilie Dickinson: I liked — the track
It was – a bop – for me
DylanThomas: although I wondered: does she just know me as someone who died in a hotel? I also wrote “A Child’s Christmas in Wales”.
Emilie Dickinson: in whales???
A Christmas – inside – a whale?
But she never checked the cat
Percy Shelley: “So Long, London” had a few lines I liked about not abandoning the ship but rather going down with it. It’s a good practice, I think.
Edna St. Vincent Millay: oh my god Percy Shelley please learn to swim
Percy Shelley: No, I do not want
learn how to burn a candle correctly
Edna St. Vincent Millay: it was a metaphor
Robert Frost: in words, I wish she would take a path less traveled
Edna St. Vincent Millay: wow, you could knock me down with a feather and you, Robert Frost, would wish that
William Carlos Williams: I listened to the songs that were on the album
DylanThomas: shut up, plum thief
Lord Byron: this man steals plums
Percy Shelley: get out of here, plum thief
TS Eliot: I loved all the religious images in “Guilty as Sin”!
John Milton: I loved religious imagery before you even blinked in anyone’s eyes.
I wish this album was more like “Montero”
Dante: just because it’s not Lil Nas
John Milton: Lil Nas X is the only artist alive today whose music interests me! Lil Nas X has a vision! Lil Nas X has taste! Have you seen the music video for “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)”? The representation of Satan in this video! He’s an artist who understands!
Virgil: Dante, please stop putting words in my mouth. We talked about it.
Dante: I liked the length of “Department of Tortured Poets”! 3 more songs and it would have been tied with the Inferno! Not a comment on the content just a comment on the length!
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Was it 31 songs? I thought I was high
Walt Whitman: I was still waiting for a piece about the death of Abe Lincoln and none of them were available.
and who are the men on this album? I appreciate a man’s song and a song about myself as much as anyone, maybe more than most people, but a golden retriever with a tattoo?
Lord Byron: I’m going to hear it
Homer: at least there were no sexy babies or hill monsters in this one
Elizabeth Bishop: whoa Homer is in the chat!
Homer: I liked “Florida!!!”
Sylvia Plath: when she said she was locked up and called crazy, it resonated
Sylvia Plath: to a degree
Emilie Dickinson: to a — Degree yes
Percy Shelley: I think we should go on a boat and talk about it [Everyone gives this message a thumbs down.]
