Poetry is at bottom a criticism of life.
Poetry is at bottom a criticism of life.
What other people may find in poetry, I find in the flight of a good drive.
He who not being inspired and having no touch of madness in his soul comes to the door and thinkshe will get into the temple by the help of art - he, I say, and his poetry are not admitted.
I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn't play, it has a poignancy to it.
I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.
After the invention of printing, poetry becomes vertical, does not fill the white space completely, it is rich in new paragraphs and repetitions.
There are people in our community writing poetry. This brings it down home. Your friend next door could be writing poetry.
I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.
Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.
Theoretically, our writers will come to us with nothing. And they will leave with the first draft of a novel, a portfolio of poems or even the first act of a play. The biggest monster of writing is the first blank 250 pages and the program is here to help
When you're going through all of this, the last thing you're thinking of as a patient, and especially as a caregiver, is to give yourself something that nurtures you and something that helps you not to get overwhelmed and burned out. Poetry, silence, walks, back rubs, or swimming, whatever, it's the thing you need most, and it's the thing you have to give yourself.
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
Professionally he declines and falls, and as a friend he drops into poetry.
It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal woundthat he will never get over it.
I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.
Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.
I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.
I'm a poet and I've read a lot of Russian poetry and can hear It's sounds. Russian poetry is so important to an understanding of the culture.
It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
Only one English poet of our own day, and that a minor one, has attempted to make the poem of four lines a specialty - that is William Watson.
With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said.
You don't go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a lot of the work.
Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.
The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.
Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
As in painting, so in poetry.
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.
As I am a poet I express what I believe, and I fight against whatever I oppose, in poetry.
My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.
I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem.
Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you --like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist --or else it is nothing, an empty formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.
To me it seems that one of the most important requisites for a great poet is a luminous style. The elements of poetry lie in natural objects, in the vicissitudes of human life, in the emotions of the human heart, and the relations of man to man.
I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they were dead their patriotism was only good for legends it was bad for their prose and made them write bad poetry. If you are going to be a great patriot i.e. loyal to any existing order of government (not one who wishes to destroy the existing for something better) you want to be killed early if your life and works won't stink.
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