“Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going.” BookIdeasBeautifulTurnsHavensPoetWallVisualsPoetry IsConcreteBeautiful Things Author:James Laughlin
“Today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets from society because we refuse to admit to ourselves that there is any danger in keeping them in our midst.” HeartTodayHavensDangerPoetRefusePainterMidst Book:Picasso: style and meaning Source: Picasso: style and meaning
“If the United States haven't grown poets, on any scale of grandeur, it is certain that they import, print, and read more poetry than any equal number of people elsewhere -- probably more than the rest of the world combined. Poetry (like a grand personality) is a growth of many generations -- many rare combinations. To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.” PeopleIfsWorldStatesCertainGrowthUnitedNumbersUnited StatesAudienceGenerationsHavensPoetPersonalityEqualScalesCombinationPrintElsewhereGrandeurImportsGreat Poet Book:Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)
“The art of the poem nowadays is something unstable; but at least the construction of the poem should make sense; you should know where you stand. Many questions haven't been answered as yet. Our poets may be wrong; but what can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.” KnowsShouldTryingMayArtPastVisionTalentHavensPoetMake SenseConstructionUnstableWhere You Stand Author:William Carlos Williams
“We might adapt for the artist the joke about there being nothing more dangerous than instruments of war in the hands of generals. In the same way, there is nothing more dangerous than justice in the hands of judges, and a paint brush in the hands of a painter! Just think of the danger to society! But today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets because we no longer admit to ourselves that there is any danger in keeping them in our midst.” ThinkingWayHeartArtWarHandsMightTodayArtistJusticeDangerousHavensDangerPoetJudgingJokesInstrumentsPaintPainterMidstBrushesPaint Brushes Author:Pablo Picasso
“I haven't seen any poet in this country behave nearly as rudely as Newt Gingrich or Bill O'Reilly. I'm not asking these people to approve of everyone's manners. I don't feel obliged to defend the manners of every poet who submits a poem to my web site. That's not my job. My job is to provide them with an opportunity to speak from the heart. If there's not much in the heart and if the mouth is running wild, that's not my problem.” PeopleIfsFeelsHeartCountryProblemRunningJobsOpportunitySpeakHavensPoetMouthsAskingBillsMannersBehaveSubmitSiteObligedNewtsBill O ReillyRunning WildSpeak From The Heart Author:Sam Hamill
“Joyce's writing in Dubliners contains some of the most unshowily beautiful sentences in the English language. I learned from him that if you write a good, clean line of English, you can get under a reader's skin. The reader won't even know why, but there you are. Didion, Berger, the many others I mentioned above, and many, many poets I haven't mentioned. Writers of this calibre are the moving targets the rest of us are always chasing.” IfsKnowsWritingBeautifulMovingLanguageLinesHavensPoetReaderSkinsCleanSentencesTargetChasingEnglish LanguageJoyce Author:Teju Cole
“This concept that you refer to in Buddhism is something I've been nurtured with through the history of my country for 700, 800 years - Persian poets and philosophers haven't said anything different with regard to experiencing life in the moment, as opposed to the belief of permanence.” YearsSaidDifferentCountryMomentsBeliefHavensPoetBuddhismConceptsRegardPhilosopherPermanencePersian Author:Abbas Kiarostami
“I co-edited an anthology called Interfictions with Delia Sherman and wrote a short scholarly book on three women poets called Voices from Fairyland: The Fantastical Poems of Mary Coleridge, Charlotte Mew, and Sylvia Townsend Warner. So I've been busy, but I haven't had time to write a novel.” WritingBookThreeVoiceNovelHavensPoetBusyMaryAnthologyCharlotteEditedScholarly Author:Theodora Goss