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“Ever to confess you're bored means you have no Inner Resources.”

Quote by John Berryman

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John Berryman was an influential American poet known for his unique poetic style and profound personal experiences. His works often explore themes of self-identity, madness, and death, having a significant impact on 20th-century American poetry. more

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“So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame because praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.”

Ifs Self Young Talking Praise Blame Extremes Pity Vanity Indifference Self Pity Cultivation Young Writers

Author:John Berryman

“I believe that the universe is one being, all its parts are different expressions of the same energy... parts of one organic whole.... (This is physics, I believe, as well as religion.) The parts change and pass, or die, people and races and rocks and stars; none of them seems to me important in itself, but only the whole. This whole is in all its parts so beautiful, and is felt by me to be so intensely in earnest, that I am compelled to love it, and to think of it as divine.”

Source: The Wild God of the World: An Anthology of Robinson Jeffers

“Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.”

Mind Imagination Taken Solitude Traitor

Book:The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers

Source: The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers

“The love of freedom has been the quality of Western man.”

Men Has Beens Quality Western

Book:The Wild God of the World: An Anthology of Robinson Jeffers

Source: The Wild God of the World: An Anthology of Robinson Jeffers

“Corruption never has been compulsory; when the cities lie at the monster's feet there are left the mountains.”

Has Beens Lying Left Cities Feet Mountain Corruption Monsters Compulsory

Book:The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers

Source: The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers

“There is no reason for amazement: surely one always knew that cultures decay, and life's end is death.”

Ends Reason Culture No Reason Decay Amazement

Book:The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1928-1938

Source: The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1928-1938

“Long live freedom and damn the ideologies.”

Long Ideology Damn Live Free

Book:The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1938-1962

Source: The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1938-1962

“Death's a fierce meadowlark: but to die having made / Something more equal to the centuries / Than muscle and bone, is mostly to shed weakness.”

Made Dies Century Equal Weakness Bones Muscles Fierce Shed Meadowlarks

Book:The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers

Source: The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers

“Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact... the spontaneous conformation of language as it is heard.”

Different Facts Use Language Heard Materials Demand Prose Spontaneous Facets

Author:William Carlos Williams

“Poets are being pursued by the philosophers today, out of the poverty of philosophy. God damn it, you might think a man had no business to be writing, to be a poet unless some philosophic stinker gave him permission.”

Thinking Men Writing Philosophy Might Today Poverty Poet Philosopher Damn Permission Pursued Philosophic

Book:The Selected Letters of William Carlos Williams

Source: The Selected Letters of William Carlos Williams