Content Updated On : 2022-05-28
Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.
30 minutesI was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was always stressing the importance of rhythm in poetry. Well, everybody knows - except us - that all Negroes have rhythms, so they elected me class poet.
30 minutesWell, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.
30 minutesIf you cannot be a poet, be the poem.
30 minutesMetaphorical tone deafness is when people are unable to discern what is of value in something. I think I'm tone deaf to poetry, for instance. Despite having studied it into a second year of university, most of it just leaves me cold.
30 minutesPoetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
30 minutesReality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.
30 minutesI write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.
30 minutesNo, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave.
30 minutesSuch discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.
30 minutesWell, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different.
30 minutesBut poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.
30 minutesThe musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.
30 minutesInstead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.
30 minutesHe passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.
30 minutesThe poet doesn't invent. He listens.
30 minutesPoetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
30 minutesPoetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
30 minutesThe music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry.
30 minutesI have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.
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