“Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily a person who responds to figures and landscapes. He is primarily one who loves pictures.” PersonsFiguresPoetMusicianPainterLandscapeSunsetMusic LoveLove PoetryNightingalesMusician LoveLove Picture Author:Andre Malraux
“Poetry colors beings, objects, landscapes and sensations with a kind of new and particular light, which is in fact that of the poet's emotions.” KindFactsLightPoetryEmotionObjectsParticularColorPoetLandscapeSensations Book:Poems Source: Poems
“When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart, some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand--a center of gravity.” Has BeensBookBodyHandsPoetryTurnsFallLanguageMemoriesPrayerBuildingPoetDisasterBlockDustLandscapeGravityCollapseCould Have BeenColumnsNotebookJerkBarrelsDebrisBucklesCenter Of Gravity Book:What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition) Source: What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)
“That the mere matter of a poem, for instance--its subject, its given incidents or situation; that the mere matter of a picture--the actual circumstances of an event, the actual topography of a landscape--should be nothing without the form, the spirit of the handling, that this form, this mode of handling, should become an end in itself, should penetrate every part of the matter;Mthis is what all art constantly strives after, and achieves in different degrees.” ShouldArtDifferentEndsMatterFormSpiritPoetryGivenSituationAchieveSubjectsEventsPoetCircumstancesDegreesUnityMereStriveInstanceLandscapeStrifePenetrateIncidentsTopography Author:Walter Pater
“One of Still Lifes many achievements is its paradoxical mix of intensity and stillness. Alexander Longs visions of landscape, identity and "History itself, a joke that no one gets" are simultaneously meditative and alert, restless and focused. This is a smart, compassionate poet. Still Life is a mesmerizing new book.” StillsBookLife IsVisionIdentityPoetAchievementSmartJokesFocusedLandscapeIntensityCompassionateStillnessRestlessParadoxicalNew BooksStill LifeMesmerizing Author:Terrance Hayes
“These are crystalline - oftentimes incandescent - translations of Juarroz's powerful metaphysical poems where eternity and silence jut up against a world where “writing infects the landscape” and there are “more letters than leaves” - The kind of match one hopes for where both the translator and the poet are in luck; new poems which don't leak and yet old poems in which the original passion shines.” WorldWritingKindPassionPowerfulSilencePoetLettersEternityOriginalsLuckShiningLandscapeMetaphysicalTranslationsLeaksTranslators Author:Jorie Graham
“Many of the poets I most admire have a way of embodying their peculiar obsessions via landscape that can sometimes seem magical.” WaySometimesSeemsPoetObsessionAdmireLandscapePeculiar Author:Anna Journey
“From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.” NightDarkPoetSolitudeDialogueLandscapePoeticYieldDiaries Author:Salvatore Quasimodo