“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
“The critics could never mortify me out of heart - because I love poetry for its own sake, - and, tho' with no stoicism and some ambition, care more for my poems than for my poetic reputation.” HeartCarePoetAmbitionCriticsSakeReputationPoeticStoicismLove Poetry Book:The Brownings' Correspondence Source: The Brownings' Correspondence
“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
“My sense of the poet is classical - the poet is one who makes poems. In each book, I develop and repeat certain general themes - time, place, memory, God, history, class, race, beauty, love, poetry, identity. The core identity is the poet making the poems.” BookMemoriesIdentityPoetLove Poetry Author:Lawrence Joseph