Quotes About Poetry

Mikä ei ole aavistuksen verran epämuotoista vaikuttaa yhdentekevältä; - tästä seuraa että säännöttömyys, toisin sanoen odottamaton, yllätyksellinen ja hämmästyttävä ovat oleellinen ja tunnuspiirteinen osa kauneutta.

Sois toujours poète, même en prose

Heureux celui qui peut d'une aile vigoureuse S'élancer vers les champs lumineux et sereins; Celui dont les pensers, comme des alouettes, Vers les cieux le matin prennent un libre essor, — Qui plane sur la vie, et comprend sans effort Le langage des fleurs et des choses muettes! (Élévation)

once said that the "Language Poets" take a private space on the public beach. My response to this is that it takes a private place within for the individual to find any comfort or freedom at all on the public beach – which, in fact, is the only beach for most of us.

The poetry is not in speaking to the dead but listening to the dead.

This is your poetry. Join the network to discover new ways of making meaning. Do not fixate on poem, voice, other striated and arbitrary meaning formations. We offer a processual, unbounded methodology that can be applied to any language and can include all languages.

Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but when they try a poem or story or novel they become pretentious.

Christmas poem to a man in jail hello Bill Abbott: I appreciate your passing around my books in jail there, my poems and stories. if I can lighten the load for some of those guys with my books, fine. but literature, you know, is difficult for the average man to assimilate (and for the unaverage man too); I don't like most poetry, for example, so I write mine the way I like to read it.

How are his poems? He's not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way.

the sea is made of blood

Sweet Christ, you must know that a man will go further for any poem than for any woman ever born.

I do think that poetry is important though, if you don't strive at it, if you don't fill it full of stars and falseness.

it's so easy to be a poet and so hard to be a man.

When can I see you again?" "In 2 hours or tomorrow." I walked to the door. You walk like a poem," she said. "See you in 2 hours," I told her.

dear J: I feel lucky that I didn't fuck you the first time we met in Houston, but luckier that I didn't fuck you the last time we met in San Francisco. this is the answer to your letter even though I don't know if you'll ever read it. the words are yours but I'll get credit for the poem. you see, it could never have worked, the way I am. B.

to die with your boots on while writing poetry is not as glorious as riding a horse down Broadway with a stick of dynamite in your teeth

The reason so much bad poetry is written is that it is written as poetry instead of concept. And the reason the public doesn't understand poetry is that there is nothing to understand, and the reason most poets write it is that they think they understand. Nothing is to be understood or regained. It is simply to be written. By someone. Sometime. And not too often.

La poesía dice demasiado en demasiado poco tiempo; la prosa dice demasiado poco y se toma demasiado tiempo.

ah, christ, what a CREW: more poetry, always more POETRY

Scrivere poesie non è difficile. Difficile è viverle.

there is hardly anything as beautiful as a woman in a long dress not even the sunrise not even the geese flying south in the long V formation in the bright freshness of early morning.

I dislike cute cat poems but I've written one anyhow.

There is nothing more magic and beautiful than lines forming across paper. It's all there is. It's all there ever was.

esse cara é legal. ele se matou e a seu pai, sua mãe, e à mulher, mas não atirou nos três filhos nem no cachorro. um dos melhores poetas desde Baudelaire