“We can understand poetry from a billion - in a billion styles, experiment, tradition, combination, spice, meter, image. It's all there for the poet and for the listener and for all of us.” StylePoetTraditionBillionsExperimentsCombinationListenersSpicesMeter Author:Juan Felipe Herrera
“As far as I can tell, there are two kinds of poets: those who want to tell stories and sing songs, and those who want to work out the chemical equation for language and pass on their experiments as poetry.” WantKindArtI CanTwoStoriesPoetrySongLanguagePoetWork OutExperimentsChemicalsEquations Author:Simon Armitage
“The man who invented Eskimo Pie made a million dollars, so one is told, but E.E. Cummings, whose verse has been appearing off andon for three years now, and whose experiments should not be more appalling to those interested in poetry than the experiment of surrounding ice-cream with a layer of chocolate was to those interested in soda fountains, has hardly made a dent in the doughy minds of our so-called poetry lovers.” MenShouldYearsMindHas BeensMadePoetryThreeMillionsHe ManPoetLoversDollarsExperimentsIceChocolateThree YearsLayersVersesCreamPieFountainIce CreamMillion DollarsLove PoetryAppearingExperimentationSoda Author:John Dos Passos
“If experiments are performed thousands of times at all seasons and in every place without once producing the effects mentioned by your philosophers, poets, and historians, this will mean nothing and we must believe their words rather than our own eyes?” IfsBelieveMeanEyeEffectsPoetSeasonsPhilosopherExperimentsHistorian Author:Galileo Galilei
“I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen.” WayWritingHappensLiteratureMy OwnClearStylePoetDecidedExperiments Book:Ever the Winds of Chance Source: Ever the Winds of Chance