“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Poetry
Adrian Mitchell on Poetry
“Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.” Continue reading
Paul Valery on Poetry
“A poem is never finished, only abandoned.” Continue reading
Paul Dirac on Science and Poetry
“In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it’s the exact opposite.” Continue reading
W. H. Auden on Poetry
“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.” Continue reading
William Shakespeare on Imagination
“The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.” Continue reading
Horace on Poetry
“No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.” Continue reading
Rene Char on Poetry
“A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.” Continue reading
Plato on Poetry
“Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.” Continue reading
Arnold Lobel on Books
“Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I’ll have a long beard by the time I read them.” Continue reading
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