“A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the time is coming when there will no longer be one standard of morality for poetry and another for life. To anyone tender of conscience, the ties formed by a free connection are stronger than the legal ones.” SecretMarriagePoetMoralityStandardsConscienceConnectionsStrongerTiesGreat PoetSecret Love Author:Ellen Key
“Mind and body are not to be taken lightly. Their connection is intimate and mysterious, and better mapped by poets than pornographers.” MindBodyTakenPoetConnectionsMysteriousIntimatePornographyMind And Body Author:Shana Alexander
“I've learned that my readings of others' work often has little connection to their intentions. This doesn't mean that my response is wrong, and it doesn't make the author's views less right. Poets, like their poems, are "hopeful monsters".” MeanLittlesPoetryReadingLiteratureViewsPoetConnectionsIntentionResponseMonstersI've LearnedHopeful Book:Feeling as a Foreign Language: The Good Strangeness of Poetry Source: Feeling as a Foreign Language: The Good Strangeness of Poetry
“Powell belongs, in fact to the first generation of American poets who may have grown up without even a vestigial connection to the accentual-syllabic, rhyming English tradition - his inventive lines have this absence at their back.” FirstsMayFactsPoetryLiteratureLinesGenerationsPoetTraditionConnectionsAbsenceRhyming Book:Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry Source: Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry
“I have no connections here; only gusty collisions, rootless seedlings forced into bloom, that collapse. ... I am the Visiting Poet: a real unicorn, a wind-up plush dodo, a wax museum of the Movement. People want to push the buttons and see me glow.” PeopleWantWarRealPoetryMovementPoetWindTravelConnectionsMuseumsCollapseButtonsVietnam WarVisitingUnicornCollisionSeedlings Author:Marge Piercy
“In American tradition a certain kind of, I would say, desperate American friendliness in which the poet tries to reach out through the page to make a connection by the side of the road with some other person.” TryingKindPersonsCertainSidesPoetPagesTraditionConnectionsDesperateReach OutFriendlinessAmerican Tradition Author:Edward Hirsch
“I am particularly conscious of my connection to the poets of the Harlem Renaissance because I, too, am a Black poet, born into, and shaped by, the very community in which those poets of the past produced so much of the work we associate with the Harlem Renaissance. We speak from the same place, both literally and metaphorically.” PastSpeakBlackBornCommunityPoetConsciousConnectionsAssociatesRenaissanceHarlemHarlem Renaissance Author:Nikki Grimes