“Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Because in almost every poem of mine there is a loss.” KnowsJobsLossMinesPoetMake Sense Author:Dan Quisenberry
“The work of the painter, the poet or the musician, like the myths and symbols of the savage, ought to be seen by us, if not as a superior form of knowledge, at least as the most fundamental and the only one really common to us all; scientific thought is merely the sharp point more penetrating because it has been whetted on the stone of fact, but at the cost of some loss of substance and its effectiveness is to be explained by its power to pierce sufficiently deeply for the main body of the tool to follow the head.” IfsHas BeensFactsBodyFormLossCommonPoetOughtCostMusicianToolsStonesFundamentalsMythSuperiorsPainterSymbolsSubstanceSavagesEffectivenessPierce Book:Tristes Tropiques Source: Tristes Tropiques
“The Church has lost a great religious poet in me; but I have lost an infinity of fun in the church, so the loss is even.” LostFunChurchReligiousLossPoetInfinityGreat Religious Book:The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner Source: The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner
“when a great war has cut off the young men of a nation it never can be told thereafter what losses of scholars, poets, thinkers and great designers the country and the world have suffered.” MenWorldWarCountryYoungNationsLossCuttingPoetYoung ManDesignerThinkerScholarGreat War Author:James Vila Blake
“My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what was being lost. One of my earliest poems, Give and Take, was about my Aunt Sugar, how I was losing her to her memory loss.” NeedsGivingLostMemoriesMy OwnLossRecordsJourneyPoetBecomingLosingSugarAuntGive And TakeMemory LossLost OnesLosing Her Author:Natasha Trethewey
“I envy no man's nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.” MenPoetryLossPoetKingsSpringEnvyRhymeNightingales Book:The poetical works of George Herbert Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“The best moments involve a loss of control. It's a kind of rapture, and it can happen with words and phrases fairly often - completely surprising combinations that make a higher kind of sense, that come to you out of nowhere. But rarely for extended periods, for paragraphs and pages - I think poets must have more access to this state than novelists do.” ThinkingKindStatesMomentsHappensLossPoetHigherPeriodsPagesAccessCombinationNovelistsPhrasesSurprisingParagraphRaptureBest Moments Author:Don DeLillo
“At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.” FeelsDeathThreeLossPoetStonesTemplesThree WordsGeisha Author:Arthur Golden
“He was a great poet" They lamented. No, he was not a great poet," said Theo, "He was a good poet, he could have been better. That's the real loss don't you see?” Has BeensSaidRealLossPoetCould Have BeenGreat Poet Author:Lloyd Alexander