“And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody.” WayYearsSometimesHelpingHappensLastsPassionLiteratureParticularPoetGreat Passion Author:Norman MacCaig
“These days, if you happen to be a poet you have to sing your words to get your ideas out.” IfsIdeasHappensPoetryPoetThese Days Author:Sara Genn
“Poetry is creative expression; Prose is constructive expression... by creative I mean original. In Poetry the words are born or reborn in the act of thinking... There is no time interval between the words and the thought when a real poet writes, both of them happen together, and both the thought and the word are Poetry.” ThinkingWritingMeanRealHappensTogetherBornCreativePoetExpressionOriginalsProsePoetry IsConstructiveIntervalsRebornCreative Expression Author:Herbert Read
“Sunlight 's a thing that needs a window Before it enter a dark room. Windows don't happen." So two old poets, Hunched at their beer in the low haze Of an inn parlour, while the talk ran Noisily by them, glib with prose.” NeedsTwoHappensDarkRoomsPoetLowsWindowBeerRanProseSunlightInnsHazeDark Room Author:R. S. Thomas
“I think that in the process of writing, all kinds of unexpected things happen that shift the poet away from his plan and that these accidents are really what we mean when we talk about poetry.” ThinkingWritingKindMeanHappensProcessPlansPoetAccidentsThings HappenAll KindsUnexpectedUnexpected Things Author:John Ashbery