“Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.”
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Author: Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Category: poetry
Tags: poetry, Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Tag: poetry
That poetry survived in its formal agencies
“That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said.”
— Robert Creeley
Author: Robert Creeley
Category: poetry
Tags: poetry, Robert Creeley
It is a happy thing that there
“It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.”
— Gerard Manley Hopkins
Author: Gerard Manley Hopkins
Category: poetry
Tags: poetry, Gerard Manley Hopkins
Poetry is a totally different art than
“Poetry is a totally different art than film.”
— Stan Brakhage
Author: Stan Brakhage
Category: poetry
Tags: poetry, Stan Brakhage
For my part, if I consider poetry
“For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.”
— Eugenio Montale
Author: Eugenio Montale
Category: poetry
Tags: poetry, Eugenio Montale
Written poetry is different. Best thing is
“Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.”
— Adrian Mitchell
Author: Adrian Mitchell
Category: poetry
Tags: poetry, Adrian Mitchell
Science arose from poetry… when times change
“Science arose from poetry… when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Category: poetry
Tags: poetry, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The poet is a liar who always
“The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.”
— Jean Cocteau
Author: Jean Cocteau
Category: poetry
Tags: poetry, Jean Cocteau
Poetry remembers that it was an oral
“Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.”
— Jorge Luis Borges
Author: Jorge Luis Borges
Category: poetry
Tags: poetry, Jorge Luis Borges
In poetry, you must love the words,
“In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.”
— Wallace Stevens
Author: Wallace Stevens
Category: poetry
Tags: poetry, Wallace Stevens
High and low culture come together in
“High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.”
— Diane Wakoski
Author: Diane Wakoski
Category: poetry
Tags: poetry, Diane Wakoski