Organic growth is a cyclical process; it is just as true to say that the oak is a potential acorn as it is to say the acorn is a potential oak. But the process of writing a poem, of making any art object, is not cyclical but a motion in one direction toward a definite end.
- W H Auden
The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.
- Jose Bergamin
I speak in a poem of the ancient food of heroes: humiliation, unhappiness, discord. Those things are given to us to transform, so that we may make from the miserable circumstances of our lives things that are eternal, or aspire to be so.
- Jorge Luis Borges
On his last voyage he had seemed on the brink of success and had stood in the prow reciting a grand poem of his own composition to a dim blue promontory in which he recognized one of the capes of Greenland. But it is idle to deny that the general feeling was dampened somehow, when they discovered it was the Cape of Good Hope. In short, the admiral was one of those who keep the world young.
- Gilbert K Chesterton
I began composing the next poem, the one that was to be written next. Not the last poem of those I had read, but the poem written in the head of someone who may never have existed but who had certainly written another poem nonetheless, and just never had the chance to commit it to ink and the page.
- Steve Erickson
The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.
- Mata Hari
You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin.
- Stanley Kunitz
I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
- Pablo Neruda
Come windless invader
I am a carnival of
Stars, a poem of blood.
- Sonia Sanchez
The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of earth remains to be written.
- Wallace Stevens
Poets are excellent students of blizzards and salt and broken statuary, but they are always elsewhere for the test. Any intention in the writing of poetry besides the aim to make a poem, of engaging the materials, SHOULD be disappointed. If the poet does not have the chutzpah to jeopardize habituated assumptions and practices, what will be produced will be sleep without dream, a copy of a copy of a copy.
- Dean Young
- W H Auden
The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.
- Jose Bergamin
I speak in a poem of the ancient food of heroes: humiliation, unhappiness, discord. Those things are given to us to transform, so that we may make from the miserable circumstances of our lives things that are eternal, or aspire to be so.
- Jorge Luis Borges
On his last voyage he had seemed on the brink of success and had stood in the prow reciting a grand poem of his own composition to a dim blue promontory in which he recognized one of the capes of Greenland. But it is idle to deny that the general feeling was dampened somehow, when they discovered it was the Cape of Good Hope. In short, the admiral was one of those who keep the world young.
- Gilbert K Chesterton
I began composing the next poem, the one that was to be written next. Not the last poem of those I had read, but the poem written in the head of someone who may never have existed but who had certainly written another poem nonetheless, and just never had the chance to commit it to ink and the page.
- Steve Erickson
The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.
- Mata Hari
You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin.
- Stanley Kunitz
I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
- Pablo Neruda
Come windless invader
I am a carnival of
Stars, a poem of blood.
- Sonia Sanchez
The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of earth remains to be written.
- Wallace Stevens
Poets are excellent students of blizzards and salt and broken statuary, but they are always elsewhere for the test. Any intention in the writing of poetry besides the aim to make a poem, of engaging the materials, SHOULD be disappointed. If the poet does not have the chutzpah to jeopardize habituated assumptions and practices, what will be produced will be sleep without dream, a copy of a copy of a copy.
- Dean Young
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