“A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the pain and yowls at the weapons that lacerate him; the great poet explores the inflamed lips of ruined flesh with ice-caked fingers, glittering and precise; but ultimately his poem is the echoing, dual voice reporting the damages.” PainPoetryVoicePoetSpeechWeaponsFingersLipsFleshWoundsHealIceDamageWoundedPreciseRuinedGreat Poet Author:Samuel R. Delany
“A dreamer of the common dreams, A fisher in familiar streams, He chased the transitory gleams That all pursue; But on his lips the eternal themes Again were new.” DreamCommonPoetEternalLipsFamiliarPursueStreamsThemeDreamerGleamTransitory Book:The Poems of William Watson Source: The Poems of William Watson
“A poet is an unhappy creature whose heart is tortured by deepest suffering but whose lips are so formed that when his sighs and cries stream out over them, their sound beomes like the sound of beautiful music . . . . And men flock about the poet saying, Sing for us soon again; that is to say, may new sufferings torture your soul, and may your lips continue to be formed as before.” MenHeartMaySoulBeautifulSufferingSoundCryPoetCreaturesLipsUnhappyYour SoulTortureStreamsSighFlocksBeautiful Music Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.” HeartPersonsBeautifulSoundMusicCryPoetProfoundLipsUnhappyThriveAnguishSighBeautiful MusicUnhappy Person Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.... And people flock around the poet and say: 'Sing again soon' - that is, 'May new sufferings torment your soul but your lips be fashioned as before, for the cry would only frighten us, but the music, that is blissful.” PeopleMenHeartMaySoulSufferingSoundCryPoetLipsLovelyUnhappyYour SoulAnguishTormentSighFlocks Author:Soren Kierkegaard