Spreuken over Poezie
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Letter - 79 Spreuken
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
DetailA poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances.
DetailA poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense.
DetailA poem is never finished, only abandoned.
DetailA poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
DetailA poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.
DetailA poet can survive everything but a misprint.
DetailA poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
DetailA poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
DetailA poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
DetailA poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
DetailA true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
DetailAll bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
DetailAlways be a poet, even in prose.
DetailAny healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
DetailBreathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.
DetailChildren and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
DetailEach memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
DetailEach word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.
DetailEven when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
DetailEvery single soul is a poem.
DetailEveryone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.
DetailEverything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
DetailGenuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
DetailHe who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
DetailHow do poems grow? They grow out of your life.
DetailHowever, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.
DetailI like poems that are little games.
DetailI sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.
DetailI still read Donne, particularly his love poems.
DetailI was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.
DetailIf Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
DetailIf you cannot be a poet, be the poem.
DetailIf you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.
DetailNo poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results?
DetailNo poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
DetailOne merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
DetailOne will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.
DetailPain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.
DetailPainting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
DetailPoetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
DetailPoetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
DetailPoetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
DetailPoetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
DetailPoetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
DetailPoetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
DetailPoetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
DetailPoetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
DetailPoetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
DetailPoetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
DetailPoetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
DetailPoetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.
DetailPoetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
DetailPoetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
DetailPoetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
DetailPoetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
DetailPoetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
DetailPoetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
DetailPoetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
DetailPoetry is what gets lost in translation.
DetailPoetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
DetailPoetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
DetailPoetry: the best words in the best order.
DetailPoets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.
DetailPoets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
DetailPublishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
DetailSometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.
DetailThe moment of change is the only poem.
DetailThe novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.
DetailThe poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.
DetailThe poem is the point at which our strength gave out.
DetailThe poet doesn't invent. He listens.
DetailThe poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
DetailThe poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.
DetailThe poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
DetailThere is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
DetailThere'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.
DetailThere's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.
Detail"Therefore" is a word the poet must not know.
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