Poet Quotes - Page 13
Songs and Sonnets "The Good-Morrow" (published 1633)
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
Letter to Madame Louise Colet, August 14, 1853.
As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality.
"Young Poets". Edith Sitwell's lecture (1957); later published in "Mightier Than the Sword: The P.E.N. Hermon Ould Memorial Lectures, 1953-1961" (p. 56), 1964.
Cherríe Moraga (1983). “Loving in the war years: lo que nunca pasó por sus labios”, South End Pr
Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
"Anima Hominis" (1924)
Sylvia Plath (2000). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962”, Anchor
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
Biographia Literaria ch. 14 (1817)
Niels Bohr's response to questions on the nature of language during his first meeting with Werner Heisenberg (Summer 1920), as quoted in "Discussions about Language", 1933, in Robert J. Pranger "Defense Implications of International Indeterminacy" (p. 11), 1972, and in Steve Giles "Theorizing Modernism: Essays in Critical Theory" (p. 28), 1993.
Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.
Langston Hughes (2002). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs”, p.408, University of Missouri Press