“The poet in prose or verse - the creator - can only stamp his images forcibly on the page in proportion as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them.” LongPoetryFeltPoetPagesCreatorProportionProseVersesStamps Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“I'm not lookin' for someone who can save me. Life rafts might keep you afloat but they rarely get you anywhere and I've got places I wanna go. So break me in two, peel back my rib cage and cover every page of my heart with love poems you will burn someday.” InspirationalHeartTwoMightPoetryBreakMy HeartPagesSomedayCagesLove PoemsSave MeRibsRib Cage Author:Andrea Gibson
“Isn't it curious how one has only to open a book of verse to realise immediately that it was written by a very fine poet, or else that it was written by someone who is not a poet at all. In the case of the former, the lines, the images, though they are inherent in each other, leap up and give one this shock of delight. In the case of the latter, they lie flat on the page, never having lived.” GivingBookLyingPoetryLinesCasesWrittenPoetFinePagesDelightCuriousFormerShockLatterFlatsLeapRealisingInherentVerses Author:Edith Sitwell
“Poetry, I thought then, and still do, is a matter of space on the page interrupted by a few well-chosen words, to give them importance. Prose is a less grand affair which has to stretch to the edges of the page to be convincing.” GivingWellsStillsMatterPoetryLiteratureSpacePagesImportanceAffairEdgesChosenProseConvincingInterrupted Book:Auto da Fay: A Memoir Source: Auto da Fay: A Memoir