on poetry
November 7, 2019
“This mortality thing is bad news.”
Madeline Gins
(November 7, 1941 – January 8, 2014)
on poetry
October 16, 2019
“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
Oscar Wilde
(October 16, 1854 – November 30, 1900)
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quote from The Picture of Dorian Gray
on poetry
October 1, 2019
“Poetry is the power
of defining the indefinable in terms
of the unforgettable.”
Louis Untermeyer
(October 1, 1885 – December 18, 1977)
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quote from The Pursuit of Poetry
on poetry
September 24, 2019
“Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person’s life.”
Eavan Boland
(b. September 24, 1944)
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quote from: A Journey with Two Maps: Becoming a Woman Poet
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)
