A Quotes
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“A poem with its throat cut from ear to ear.
The Daily Mirror”
Source: On Seeming to Presume
“A poem without metaphor is a gelding; useless to nightmares.”
Source: Father Crow and Other Poems
“A poem's essential discovery can happen at a single sitting. The cascade of discoveries in an essay, or even finding a question worth exploring in one, seems to need roughly the time it takes to plant and harvest a crop of bush beans.”
“A poem's life and death dependeth still
Not on the poet's wits, but reader's will.”
“A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time.”
Source: The Journals
“A poem, as a manifestation of language and thus essentially dialogue, can be a message in a bottle, sent out in the –not always greatly hopeful-belief that somewhere and sometime it could wash up on land, on heartland perhaps. Poems in this sense too are under way: they are making toward something. Toward what? Toward something standing open, occupiable, perhaps toward an addressable Thou, toward an addressable reality.”
“A poem, being an instance of language, hence essentially dialogue, may be a letter in a bottle thrown out to the sea with the-surely not always strong-hope that it may somehow wash up somewhere, perhaps on the shoreline of the heart. In this way, too, poems are en route: they are headed towards. Toward what? Toward something open, inhabitable, an approachable you, perhaps, an approachable reality. Such realities are, I think, at stake in a poem.”
“a poesia não nos salva da morte
mas faz o luto connosco"
"todas as conversas
por mais rebuscadas
são rios que vão desaguar em ti
volta e meia os arbustos tremem
e o cheiro que aparece é teu"
"e se foi o acaso
de nos fintarmos
a vida inteira
pelos mesmos sítios sem nos cruzarmos
ou talvez o acaso
de nos cruzarmos
pelas mesmas ruas
sem notar"
"podes vir
podemos falar sobre tudo
podemos falar
do cheiro dos livros em segunda mão
cheiram aos avós de quem?
cheiram aos avós de alguém
apesar de não serem os nossos
mas não tivemos todos os mesmos avós?
não importa"
"o inverno todo à espera do verão
o frio sempre à mingua do calor
não perguntar com medo do não
nem sequer dar com medo da dor
a inspiração
a sorte
as certezas
tal como tantos outros ventos
são vagas que devemos respeitar
as estações são no seu tempo
não as podemos apressar”
Source: o 3 é um número par
“a poesia não nos salva morte
mas faz o luto connosco"
"todas as conversas
por mais rebuscadas
são rios que vão desaguar em ti
volta e meia os arbustos tremem
e o cheiro que aparece é teu"
"e se foi o acaso
de nos fintarmos
a vida inteira
pelos mesmos sítios sem nos cruzarmos
ou talvez o acaso
de nos cruzarmos
pelas mesmas ruas
sem notar"
"podes vir
podemos falar sobre tudo
podemos falar
do cheiro dos livros em segunda mão
cheiram aos avós de quem?
cheiram aos avós de alguém
apesar de não serem os nossos
mas não tivemos todos os mesmos avós?
não importa"
"o inverno todo à espera do verão
o frio sempre à mingua do calor
não perguntar com medo do não
nem sequer dar com medo da dor
a inspiração
a sorte
as certezas
tal como tantos outros ventos
são vagas que devemos respeitar
as estações são no seu tempo
não as podemos apressar”
Source: o 3 é um número par
“a poesia não nos salva morte
mas o luto connosco"
"todas as conversas
por mais rebuscadas
são rios que vão desaguar em ti
volta e meia os arbustos tremem
e o cheiro que aparece é teu"
"e se foi o acaso
de nos fintarmos
a vida inteira
pelos mesmos sítios sem nos cruzarmos
ou talvez o acaso
de nos cruzarmos
pelas mesmas ruas
sem notar"
"podes vir
podemos falar sobre tudo
podemos falar
do cheiro dos livros em segunda mão
cheiram aos avós de quem?
cheiram aos avós de alguém
apesar de não serem os nossos
mas não tivemos todos os mesmos avós?
não importa"
"o inverno todo à espera do verão
o frio sempre à mingua do calor
não perguntar com medo do não
nem sequer dar com medo da dor
a inspiração
a sorte
as certezas
tal como tantos outros ventos
são vagas que devemos respeitar
as estações são no seu tempo
não as podemos apressar”
Source: o 3 é um número par
“A poesia traz grande beleza à vida, mas também uma grande tristeza, e não tenho a certeza se a troca é justa para alguém da minha idade. Um homem deveria gozar outras coisas, se pudesse - devia gastar osseus últimos dias ao sol. Os meus vão ser passados debaixo de uma lâmpada de leitura.”
Source: Diário de uma Paixão: Uma das mais emocionantes e intensas histórias de amor
“A poesia é como a vida, infinita como o mar. Quando ela toca o coração do homem, nunca mais é esquecida.”
Source: AVENTURAS? Por que não?: Conversas sobre espiritualidade.
“A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon, the stars, the heavens, and the flowers, to say nothing of the spring, love, and dogs.”
“A poet articulating the dreads and horrors of our time is necessary in order to make readers understand what is happening, really understand it, not just know about it but feel it: and should be accompanied by a willingness on the part of those who write it to take additional action towards stopping the great miseries which they record.”
Source: New & Selected Essays
“A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for himself. You can write a short story for yourself. But for me, comedy by its nature is communal. If other people don't get it, I'm not sure why you are doing it.”
“A poet can imagine an iceberg singing a melancholic song while the world leaders find it difficult to imagine proper solution to global warming.”
“A poet can survive everything but a misprint.”
Source: Reviews
“A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.”
“A poet can't afford to be aloof. The tools of his trade are the people he bumps up against.”
“A poet cannot be a Party member ... without paying the price.”
“A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.”
“A poet could kill the dead.”
Source: Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet
“A poet could write volumes about diners, because they're so beautiful. They're brightly lit, with chrome and booths and Naugahyde and great waitresses. Now, it might not be so great in the health department, but I think diner food is really worth experiencing periodically.”
“A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.”
Source: In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers
“A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined not to scrape his bottom on anything solid. A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.”
“A poet does not pour forth rasa until he himself overflows with it .”
“A poet feels the impulse to create a work of art when the passive awe provoked by an event is transformed into a desire to express that awe in a rite of worship.”
“A poet has a sacred duty. He has to hear unsung songs and see unseen beauty.”
“A poet has to adapt himself, more or less consciously,to the demands of his vocation, and hence the peculiarities of poets and the condition of inspiration which many people have said is near to madness... The problem of creative writing is essentially one of concentration... a focusing of the attention in a special way.”
“A poet! I should have known you for a poet by how your body moved.”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
“A poet if anything must be a poet and far more than just a writer of words. The poet is the storyteller, the shaman, the jester and the rogue. The poet lives in the world of language and imagination, love, death & obsession and yet still sees the universe in the smallest of everyday things that we merely take for granted.”
Source: The Resurrection Waltz
“A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke”
Source: Enjoyment of Poetry: With Other Essays in Aesthetics
“A poet inserts language of feeling in words of poetry; whereas, the singer sings that, as the waves of pathos and call of love and soul.”
“A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.”
“A poet is a blind optimist.
The world is against him for
many reasons. But the
poet persists. He believes
that he is on the right track,
no matter what any of his
fellow men say. In his
eternal search for truth, the
poet is alone.
He tries to be timeless in a
society built on time.”
“A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the latter. The sensation of this takeover is responsible for timbre; the realization of it, for destiny.”
Source: Less Than One: Selected Essays
“A poet is a good citizen turned inside out.”
“A poet is a human blossoming with the scent of spring.”
“A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.”
“A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.”
“A poet is a musician that can't sing. Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woeful small targets. Music touches their hearts directly no matter how small or stubborn the mind of the man who listens.”
Source: The Name of the Wind
“A poet is a musician who can't sing.”
“A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds; his auditors are as men entranced by the melody of an unseen musician, who feel that they are moved and softened, yet know not whence or why.”
Source: A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays
“A poet is a painter in his way, he draws to the life, but in another kind; we draw the nobler part, the soul and the mind; the pictures of the pen shall outlast those of the pencil, and even worlds themselves.”
Source: Oroonoko: the Royal Slave: Souls Needed for You
“A poet is a painter of the soul.”
“A poet is a poet, whether he rides in a Ford or on a donkey; a sage is a sage, whether he plays golf in New Jersey or bathes in the Ganges, or prays in the desert; and a fool is a fool, whether he be a maharaja or a president of a post-war republic.”
“A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.”
“A poet is a time mechanic not an embalmer.”
Source: My Vocabulary Did this to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer
“A poet is a unique creature that resides within a human being, embodying a distinct kind of consciousness.”
“A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.”
Source: Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry