Quotes About Craft

Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.

The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.

Why do you always write poetry? Why do you not write prose? Prose is so much more difficult.

Poetry - poiesis means a thing made.

What I try to do is to keep emotion on a tight leash; otherwise, it can never be transubstantiated into poetry.

Prose is a photography, poetry is a painting in oil-colors.

Poetry is such an ancient art, and I consider myself young within that art.

There's very little of the intentional about the business of writing poetry, as least as far as I can see.

Now, the process of writing poetry is very messy. Not systematic, never quite the same

I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.

Poetry is an art practiced with the terribly plastic material of human language.

I write poetry. It comes naturally to me, but from a technical point of view it forces me to pay close attention to language and to scan.

So poetry, which is in Oxford made An art, in London only is a trade.

The more rhymethere isin poetry the more dangerof its tricking the writer into something other than the urge in the beginning.

The ink of a pen is simply the blood of a heart

It kills your writing if you try to manipulate it with crude politics.

A good part of my leadership skills is crafted from learning from experiences early in my career that were not positive experiences.

Work on your craft, whatever your medium. Determination is your illusion headway toward reality.

My aim is not to exhibit craft, but rather to submerge it, and make it rightfully the handmaiden of beauty, power and emotional content.

De twijfel zit in zijn werk als een breipatroon in een damesblad.

A poem is a small (or large) machine made of words.

By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have new currency.

I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.

I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines.