“Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.” ThinkingWorldTryingLooksDifferentViewsRichPoetDistancePoint Of ViewDualityDifferent Points Of View Author:Wislawa Szymborska
“All of a sudden I understand why I like Aliki Barnstones poems so much. They remind me of the one she has studied most - shall we call her her master - Emily Dickinson. Not in the forms, not, as such, in the music, and not in the references; but in that weird intimacy, that eerie closeness, that absolute confession of soul.... In Barnstone, too, the two worlds are intensely present, and the voice moves back and forth between them. She has the rare art of distance and closeness. It gives her her fine music, her wisdom, her form. She is a fine poet.” WorldGivingArtTwoSoulMovingFormVoicePoetMastersFineAbsolutesDistanceIntimacyConfessionBack And ForthClosenessEmilyTwo WorldsEerie Author:Gerald Stern
“The historian must be a poet; not to find, but to find again; not to breathe life into beings, into imaginary deeds, but in order to re-animate and revive that which has been; to represent what time and space have placed at a distance from us.” Has BeensOrderSpacePoetDistanceDeedsBreatheHistorianImaginaryTime And SpaceRevive Author:Philibert Joseph Roux
“I write first drafts with only the good angel on my shoulder, the voice that approves of everything I write. This voice does'nt ask questions like, Is this good? Is this a poem? Are you a poet? I keep this voice at a distance, letting only the good angel whisper to me: Trust yourself. You can't worry a poem into existence.” WritingFirstsDoeAsksVoiceExistenceWorryPoetAngelDistanceShouldersTrust Yourself Author:Georgia Heard