Poet Quotes - Page 33

Listen to some good poetry. You see? It keeps us from thinking we are only what our blatant appetites describe us as.

Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

There is a world which poets cannot seem to enter. It is the world everybody else lives in. And the only thing poets seem to have in common is their yearning to enter this world.

Advice to Young Poets Never pretend to be a unicorn by sticking a plunger on your head.

The 'open text' often emphasizes or foregrounds process, either the process of the original composition or of subsequent compositions by readers.

An anaesthetic is a poet-killer.

The poet should touch our heart by showing his own

Poetry is a verdict rather than an intention.

Poetry is the art of using language to transcend language.

I would rather read poetry than eat my dinner any day. It has been so all my life.

Summer in the trees! “It is time to strangle several bad poets.

Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended, and surprising at last with an unexpected catastrophe.

The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet.

Verse is a mechanism by which we can create interpretative illusions suggesting profoundities of response and understanding which far exceed the engagement or research of the writer.

What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down.

And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.

All poetry is misrepresentation.

Poetry is a game of loser-take-all.

We photographers are poets in the language of symbols.

The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life.