on poetry
September 16, 2019
“History is a succession of things that ought never to have happened, and the writing act is a kind of revenge against this.”
Breyten Breytenbach
(b. September 16, 1939)
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photo by Keke Keukelaar
on poetry
September 3, 2019
“You must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.”
Sarah Orne Jewett
(September 3, 1849 – June 24, 1909)
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quote from a letter to Willa Cather, 1908
on poetry
August 26, 2019
“One reason I like to think in series and sequences is that it tends to pull us out of the problem of preciousness. In other words, if I have written ten poems or one hundred poems it becomes easier to cut one up or throw it away, or to see how a particularly bad poem I have written might have been necessary as a means to moving toward something more interesting.”
Laynie Browne
(b. August 26, 1966)
on poetry
August 9, 2019
Rhyme is the rock on which thou art to wreck,
’Tis fatal to thy fame and to thy neck.
John Dryden
(August 9, 1631 – May 12, 1700)
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quote from Extracts from Absalom and Achitophel: Doeg and Og
on poetry
July 31, 2019
“Maybe you’re one of those people who writes poems, but rarely reads them. Let me put this as delicately as I can: If you don’t read, your writing is going to suck.”
Kim Addonizio
(b. July 31, 1954)
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quote: Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within
photo: Tan Lin
on poetry
July 24, 2019
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
Zelda Fitzgerald
(July 24, 1900 – March 10, 1948)
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