love was never meant to be just a metaphor between the pages of poetry.
Obstacles without optimism can overturn opportunities for growth, hope and success.
The short story seems like the best of all possible worlds. I do feel it is closer to writing poetry than to writing a novel, with its requirements of concentration and economy.
It is humor's job to laugh at the futility oft engendered by the improbable; but it is poetry's job to dream of the potentiality of that which is not impossible.
Poetry is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread.
And as this creation itself is poetry, so its creators were poets; and language was the instrument of their art
There is something mystically sad and beautiful about how i will never see you again but meet you again and again in poetry.
poetry. i am not writing it. (make way for me please) it is my skin. dripping with light.
Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.
Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.
In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.
But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.
But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.
Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.
Fogs are like dreams that feed the soul, and without their mysterious embrace, childhood, courtship, poetry and the composition of music become all the more difficult.
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.
A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be.
In writing, I want to be remembered for telling good stories in beautiful and powerful language, using the poetry of words to reflect the thematic concerns of compelling stories.
Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.
The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth.
