“People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.”
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“If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield.”
“The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.”
“The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?”
“And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.”
“It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.”
“I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.”
“The cliche is dead poetry.”
“Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays.”
“Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.”
“I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.”
“Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga.”
“Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!”
“Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the concision, the ability to say something as vividly as possible - but also the ability to create a narrative that, though lacking a novel's length, satisfies the reader.”
“Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem.”
“All the modern verse plays, they're terrible they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.”
“Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.”
“Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man it has become the amusement and delight of the few.”
“Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.”
“And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before.”
“To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.”
“The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.”
“Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.”
“No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern.”