Quotes about poet
poetry misrepresentation poetry-is
All poetry is misrepresentation. Jeremy Bentham
poetry speak nectar
The poet speaks adequately only when he speaks somewhat wildly... not with intellect alone, but with intellect inebriated by nectar. Henry Miller
poetry magic literature
Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature. James Broughton
poetic methodology discourse
Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology. Jacques Derrida
poetry old-fashioned
Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good. Izaak Walton
poetry soul poet
A poet is a painter of the soul. Isaac Disraeli
poetry noble delight
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. George Sand
poetry-and-music world singers
Bangladesh is a world of metaphor, of high and low theater, of great poetry and music. You talk to a rice farmer and you find a poet. You get to know a sweeper of the streets and you find a remarkable singer. Jean Houston
poetic surface
The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche Gaston Bachelard
poet brutes
As we to the brutes, poets are to us. George Meredith
poet
We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets. Friedrich Nietzsche
poetry prose
Prose talks and poetry sings. Franz Grillparzer
poetry-and-music tone sound
Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?
poetry criticism tailors
A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.
poetry poetic poet
The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
poet satisfied
The poet will not be satisfied with recording, the poet will have to transform. Jeanette Winterson
poetic-license novelists poetic
A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life. Jerzy Kosinski
poetry style morality
For a poet, style is the only morality. Jennifer Stone
poetic-license dying understood
I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
poetry identity literature
To many writers and thinkers, though not to all, another text is, or can be, the most naked and charged of life-forces ... The concept of allusion or analogue is totally inadequate. To Dante these other texts are the organic context of identity. They are as directly about life as life is about them. George Steiner
poetry use records
Functions of technical information, historic record, analytic argument, which are integral and obvious to Dante's use of verse are now almost completely a part of the 'prosaic'.
poetry indispensable poetry-is
I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say. Jean Cocteau
poetry poetic invention
The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
poetry poet grownups
There are poets and there are grownups.
poet
Money is everywhere, but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets. Federico Fellini
poetry wells prose
Poetry must be as well written as prose. Ezra Pound
poetry firsts break
To break the pentameter, that was the first heave
poet not-interested
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
poetry elements likes
In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
poetry scribbles
We all scribble poetry. Homer
poetic verses
Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it. Howard Nemerov
poetry fidgeting sometimes
I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.
poetry nuisance solace
I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends. Hortense Calisher