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Showing posts with label Poetry And Poets Quotes. Show all posts
Who among us has not, in momen...
Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme, both supple and staccato enough to adapt itself to the lyrical movements of our souls, the undulating movements of our reveries, and the convulsive movements of our consciences? This obsessive ideal springs above all from frequent contact with enormous cities, from the junction of their innumerable connections.
When you write in prose you sa...
When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must.
When I feel inclined to read p...
When I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as that of sentences. The author may arrange the gems effectively but their shape and lustre have been given by the attrition of ages.
When a poet's mind is perfectl...
When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.
When a great poet has lived, c...
When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.
There's no money in poetry, bu...
There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money either.
There are nine and sixty ways ...
There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, and every single one of them is right.
The poets did well to conjoin ...
The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body.
The poet's mind is ... a recep...
The poet's mind is ... a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.
The mind that finds its way to...
The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.
The fact that there are so man...
The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in America has been ascribed by our rebels to the horrible squareness of our institutions, the idiocy of power, the debasement of sexual instincts, and the failure of writers to be alienated enough. The poems and novels of these same rebellious spirits, and their theoretical statements, are grimy and gritty and very boring too, besides being nonsensical, and it is evident by now that polymorphous sexuality and vehement declarations of alienation are not going to produce great works of art either.
The courage of the poet is to ...
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
Such is the role of poetry. It...
Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.
Rhymes, meters, stanza forms, ...
Rhymes, meters, stanza forms, etc., are like servants. If the master is fair enough to win their affection and firm enough to command their respect, the result is an orderly happy household. If he is too tyrannical, they give notice; if he lacks authority, they become slovenly, impertinent, drunk and dishonest.
Reason respects the difference...
Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.
Popular poets are the parish p...
Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.
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