“All beautiful things bring sadness, nor alone Sweet music, as our wisest Poet spake, Because in us keen longings they awake.” BeautifulBeautySadnessPoetSweetLongingAwakeBeautiful ThingsWisestSweet Music Author:Richard Chenevix Trench
“You must be a poet, a lady of evil luck desiring to be what you are not, longing to be what you can only visit.” DesirePoetryEvilPoetLuckLonging Book:The Awful Rowing Toward God Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God
“Poetic experience is distinct in nature from mystical experience. Because poetry emanates from the free creativity of the spirit,it is from the very start oriented toward expression, and terminates in a word proffered, it wants to speak; whereas mystical because it emanates from the deepest longing of the spirit bent on knowing, tends of itself toward silence and internal fruition. Poetic experience is busy with the created world and the enigmatic and innumerable relations of existents with one another, not with the Principle of Being.” WorldWantSpiritPoetrySpeakSilencePrinciplesCreativityKnowingPoetExpressionRelationLongingBusyInternalsPoeticMysticalBentFruitionEmanateEnigmaticMystical Experiences Author:Jacques Maritain
“I did not have any role model. I could not learn anything from the female voice that male poets used, a voice which is more "feminine" than female. Nor could I learn anything from ancient female poetry that only sang about love, the feeling of farewell and longing for others.” FeelingsUsedVoiceRolesPoetModelsFemaleLongingMalesAncientFeminineRole ModelsFarewellFemale Voice Author:Kim Hyesoon