“The fine gifts of temperament and imagination which are essential to the production of true poetry are often accompanied by morbid sensibility. The soul capable of ecstasy and transport must pay its price in suffering; he who walks upon the heights must sometimes grovel in the dust.” SoulSometimesSufferingImaginationWalksPayPoetFineEssentialsCapableProductionsDustHeightEcstasySensibilityTemperamentTransportMorbid Author:Myrtle Reed
“The saying, "The Magyar is much too lazy to be bored," is worth thinking about. Only the most subtle and active animals are capable of boredom.--A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.” ThinkingWould BeAnimalCreationPoetCapableActiveBoredBoredomThemeLazySubtleMaximsGreat Poet Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“I know that in a poem, even when the speaker is speaking from the poet's experience, there's always something that's borrowed, some authority that sits outside of the poet that the poem has claimed. There's a dramatic pitch that makes the speaker capable of saying something more courageous or stranger or simply other than what the poet would be able to say.” KnowsWould BeAblePoetAuthorityCapableStrangerDramaticCourageousSpeakersBorrowed Author:Tracy K. Smith