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“Out of the ruined lodge and forgotten mansion, bowers that are trodden under foot, and pleasure-houses that are dust, the poet calls up a palingenesis.”

Poetry House Pleasure Feet Poet Forgotten Dust Ruined Mansions Lodges

Book:Essays on the Poets: And Other English Writers

Source: Essays on the Poets: And Other English Writers

“On every full moon, rituals ... take place on hilltops, beaches, in open fields and in ordinary houses. Writers, teachers, nurses, computer programmers, artists, lawyers, poets, plumbers, and auto mechanics -- women and men from many backgrounds come together to celebrate the mysteries of the Triple Goddess of the Dance of Life. The religion they practice is called Witchcraft.”

Source: Spiral Dance: Slipcase

“Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions between ordinary usage and figures of speech.”

Ifs House Language Figures Poet Speech Ordinary Prison Distinction Rejects Strict Usage Figures Of Speech

Author:Arthur Quinn

“Poets claim that we recapture for a moment the self that we were long ago when we enter some house or garden in which we used to live in our youth. But these are most hazardous pilgrimages, which end as often in disappointment as in success. It is in ourselves that we should rather seek to find those fixed places, contemporaneous with different years.”

Should Years Long Different Ends Self Moments Used House Youth Poet Garden Claims Disappointment Fixed Long Ago Pilgrimage

Book:In Search of Lost Time, Volume III: The Guermantes Way

Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume III: The Guermantes Way

“My verse has brought me no roubles to spare: no craftsmen have made mahogany chairs for my house.”

Made Poetry House Poet Chairs Verses Spares Craftsman Mahogany

Author:Vladimir Mayakovsky

“Coleridge received the Person from Porlock And ever after called him a curse, Then why did he hurry to let him in? He could have hid in the house.”

Persons Poetry House Poet Curse Ever After Interruptions

Book:New Selected Poems of Stevie Smith

Source: New Selected Poems of Stevie Smith

“The novel may be dead as a commercial form. When art forms things die as commercial forms, something happens to the practice of those arts that isn't very pleasant. It used to be that a poet like Tennyson could keep his house and his coach-and-four and his staff of six servants on the income from poetry. That doesn't happen anymore.”

May Art Happens Form Used Dies House Practice Novel Four Poet Six Coaches Things Happen Income Used To Be Servant Pleasant Staff Tennyson

Author:William Monahan

“My mom was a manic depressive schizophrenic who, after a year in prison, went home and shot herself. My sister, Kirsten, an amazing poet, who was raised by this woman, and was dating a guy who broke up with her for the fourth time in three weeks. And one day, she came to his house, got a gun, and blew her brains out all over his headboard. I just went through a divorce, five years in court and cost me $2 million dollars. If anyone, by law, should be forced to take antidepressants it's me... But instead, I choose to be an antidepressant. And you can take me with alcohol.”