Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.
Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.
A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
Poetry makes nothing happen, it survives In the valley of its saying.
A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists. Unfortunately, poetry cannot celebrate them, because their deeds are concerned with things, not persons. . .
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible, it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith.
You will be a poet because you will always be humiliated.
To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention --on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God. . .
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