“Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, we do not easily receive strong impressions, or delightful images; and words to which we are nearly strangers, whenever they occur, draw that attention on themselves which they should transmit to other things.” ShouldWritingPurposeStrongSoundAttentionPoetDrawsDefeatStrangerImpressionFamiliarOccasionsDelightfulTransmitCoarse Book:The Lives of the English Poets Source: The Lives of the English Poets
“There is nothing “still” in the remarkably visceral poems of Alexander Long's third collection, Still Life, and nothing is at rest in these restless and edgy poems. Conversational and kinetic, these poems chart the traces left by the shifting overlays of the templates of literature, rock-and-roll, and contemporary culture. As each poem in Still Life attempts to fix a focus upon a scene or subject, the protean natures under view draw the poet into the eddies and complexities of reflection. This is a powerful and moving collection of poems.” LongStillsMovingCultureLiteratureLeftViewsPowerfulFocusSubjectsRocksPoetSceneDrawsReflectionThirdsContemporaryComplexityCollectionsRock And RollRestlessShiftingEdgyVisceralStill Life Author:David St. John
“Every poet has a certain amount of "stuff." That's what you draw from for imagery. The more stuff you know well, not simply intellectually but sensually, emotionally, intimately, the wider the pool from which you draw.” KnowsWellsCertainStuffPoetAmountDrawsPoolImagery Author:Marge Piercy
“I guess what inspires me most is the desire to draw out feelings that feel best expressed on the written page by really good authors, and I'm not a really good author. I feel like my job as a filmmaker is to eff the ineffable, to take feelings that only poets could describe with words and try to project them on the screen for viewers to feel. I don't think I've succeeded once but in the act of trying I've come up with all these other results which sometimes intrigue me.” ThinkingFeelsTryingSometimesFeelingsJobsDesireResultsWrittenInspirePoetProjectsPagesDrawsCome UpScreensFilmmakerViewersIntrigueIneffableGood Authors Author:Guy Maddin
“I try to, at least once or twice a week, have someone over and model, usually a dancer friend or a poet or someone to come over and just stay still for me. Depending on how exhibitionist they are, it will determine the finished work. And I say, "You're the muse; you come up with it. I'll draw you however you want."” WantTryingStillsWeekPoetModelsDrawsDetermineCome UpFinishedDancerMuseFinished WorkExhibitionist Author:Eric Drooker
“He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.” PoetryLinesWrittenPoetDrawsDelightNoblePoetry IsPoeticSentimentsWriting PoetryPoetry By Famous Poets Book:The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable). Source: The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).