Post by Ashra on Jul 9, 2006 23:21:08 GMT -5
Okay, people, I decided the news fader is too long with all the quotes, so I'm going to put them up here, instead. If you have any more poetry quotes you would like to add, feel free. ;D n_n :3
"There is poetry as soon as we realize we possess nothing." ~John Cage
"The poet doesn't invent. He listens." ~Jean Cocteau
"The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth." ~Jean Cocteau
"Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash." ~Leonard Cohen
"Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful." ~Rita Dove
"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things." ~T. S. Eliot
"Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words." ~Paul Engle
"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself." ~E. M. Forster
"Every poem can be considered in two ways --
as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes." ~C.S. Lewis
"'I wish life were not so short,' he thought, 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'" ~J.R.R. Tolkien
"There is poetry as soon as we realize we possess nothing." ~John Cage
"The poet doesn't invent. He listens." ~Jean Cocteau
"The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth." ~Jean Cocteau
"Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash." ~Leonard Cohen
"Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful." ~Rita Dove
"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things." ~T. S. Eliot
"Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words." ~Paul Engle
"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself." ~E. M. Forster
"Every poem can be considered in two ways --
as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes." ~C.S. Lewis
"'I wish life were not so short,' he thought, 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'" ~J.R.R. Tolkien