Quotes about poe
poetry joy three
For Mallarmé naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consists in the joy of guessing bit by bit - "le suggérer, voilà le rêve!"). Umberto Eco
poetry literature outcomes
Stopgaps do belong to the internal economy of the form, since the Whole requires them, even if only in a subordinate position ... The stopgap Luigi Paryson's 'zeppa' accepts its own banality, because without the speed that the banal allows up, it would slow up a passage that is crucial for the outcome of the work and its interpretation.
poetry tests genuine
It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. T. S. Eliot
poetry crafts conscious
The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.
poetry literature language
Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.
poetry done certain
When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.
poetry feelings may
Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
poet units sentences
The unit of the poet is the word, the unit of the prose writer is the sentence. Susan Sontag
poetry language poetry-is
Poetry is language surprised in the act of changing into meaning. Stanley Kunitz
poetry purpose poetry-is
The purpose of poetry is to make life complete in itself. Wallace Stevens
poetry dresses worms
The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.
poetry-is abstraction
Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.
poetry-is
All poetry is experimental poetry.
poet
A poet's words are of things that do not exist without the words.
poetry invisible priests
The poet is the priest of the invisible.
poetry house made
My verse has brought me no roubles to spare: no craftsmen have made mahogany chairs for my house. Vladimir Mayakovsky
poetry poet beacons-of-light
Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time. Virginia Woolf
poet contemporary
The poet is always our contemporary.
poet journalist
I'm not a journalist; I'm a poet. Werner Herzog
poet found
No place is a place until it has found its poet. Wallace Stegner
poetry achieve music-is
Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve music.
poetry literature spirit
The spirit of poetry, like all other living powers, must of necessity circumscribe itself by rules, were it only to unite power with beauty. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
poetry attention definitions
The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places; of good verse, the most proper words in their proper places.The propriety is in either case relative. The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.
poetry ends lost
Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing. W. S. Merwin
poetry adjectives
Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry. W. H. Auden
poet said reader
What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.
poet happens
Poetry makes nothing happen.
poetry vineyards farming
With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse
poetry poet humiliated
You will be a poet because you will always be humiliated.
poetic poet makers
A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
poetry professors poetry-is
What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?
poet
Even a poet cannot get everything right. Ursula K. Le Guin
poetry warning today
All a poet can do today is warn. Wilfred Owen