on poetry
March 18, 2019
“It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.”
Stéphane Mallarmé
(March 18, 1842 – September 9, 1898)
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on poetry
February 21, 2019
“…poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.”
W.H. Auden
(February 21, 1907 – September 29, 1973)
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quote from “New Year Letter”
on poetry
February 8, 2019
“…poets are like proverbs; you can always find one to contradict another.”
Jules Verne
(February 8, 1828 – March 24, 1905)
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quote from The Collected Works Of Jules Verne
photo by Félix Nadar
on poetry
January 27, 2019
“When you feel you’ve got a line that’s pulling a lot of emotional freight with it, then you know you’ve probably started a poem.”
Harvey Shapiro
(January 27, 1924 – January 7, 2013)
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on poetry
January 20, 2019
“What we call ‘meaning’ seems to me such a small part of what happens in a poem that it seems perverse somehow to focus on it to the exclusion of everything else — the rhythms, the images, the paradoxes and unmeanings, the music of the words.”
Bruce Beasley
(b. January 20)
on poetry
January 14, 2019
“I still have no way to survive but to keep writing one line, one more line, one more line…”
Yukio Mishima
(January 14, 1925 – November 25, 1970)
on poetry
December 30, 2018
“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
Rudyard Kipling
(December 30, 1865 – January 18, 1936)
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