“Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.” ThinkingWorldDoeLyingPoetryNightTimeLiteratureLinesPartyPoetExpressionBedPoetry IsPoetry By Famous PoetsPoetry By PoetsWhat Is Poetry Author:Allen Ginsberg
“The poet who writes "free" verse is like Robinson Crusoe on his desert island: he must do all his cooking, laundry and darning for himself. In a few exceptional cases, this manly independence produces something original and impressive, but more often the result is squalor - dirty sheets on the unmade bed and empty bottles on the unswept floor.” WritingResultsCasesProducePoetBedEmptyOriginalsIndependenceCookingDesertDirtyIslandsBottlesVersesSheetsExceptionalImpressiveManlyLaundryFree VerseSqualorRobinson CrusoeEmpty BottlesUnmade Beds Author:W. H. Auden
“The ideal audience the poet imagines consists of the beautiful who go to bed with him, the powerful who invite him to dinner and tell him secrets of state, and his fellow-poets. The actual audience he gets consists of myopic schoolteachers, pimply young men who eat in cafeterias, and his fellow-poets. This means, in fact, he writes for his fellow-poets.” MenWritingMeanStatesFactsBeautifulYoungPowerfulSecretAudienceImaginePoetBedIdealsFellowsDinnerYoung ManInvitesCafeteriaMyopic Author:W. H. Auden
“I don't think that you can say by any stretch of the imagination that all Wisconsin or Brooklyn-based poets write in a particular way. Similar sensibilities can spring up next to each other in the flower bed, or across oceans.” ThinkingWayWritingNextImaginationParticularPoetFlowerBedOceanSpringSensibilityBrooklynWisconsin Author:Matthea Harvey