Quotes About Innovation

Faith marches at the head of the army of progress. -It is found beside the most refined life, the freest government, the profoundest philosophy, the noblest poetry, the purest humanity.

As far as I know Misha wrote the first cyberpunk poetry.

The poet is the one who breaks through our habits.

A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them.

In perhaps 50 years, 60 years, we can finish completely this civilization, and offer to our children the possibility to invent a new story, a new poetry, a new romanticism.

I have always disliked the idea of an arts ghetto in which poetry is kept on a life-support system.

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

You can't write poetry on the computer.

The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.

A perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written, the world would end. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

A lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new

I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago.

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.

Poetry must find ways of breaking distance.... all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds.

Modern poets add a lot of water to their ink.

Poetry can only be made out of other poems; novels out of other novels.

I like putting common expressions next to uncommon expressions. I'm sure in Poetry 101 there is a name for it, but it seems like you usually go one way or the other in rock music.

Probably the best nonsense poetry is produced gradually and accidentally, by communities rather than by individuals.

Dream by making and make by dreaming.

To do something very common, in my own way.

All poetry is experimental poetry.

I am charmed by concrete poetry (but it's very hard to do well, I think) and in general by the idea of mixing the visual and the textual.