Quotes about poetry
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. Umberto Eco
poetry great-poet can-do
Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do. Stephen Spender
poetry problem haiku
The only problem with Haiku is that you just get started and then Roger McGough
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
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.
poetry professors poetry-is
What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?
poetry warning today
All a poet can do today is warn. Wilfred Owen