“Two opposing forces inhabit the poem: one of elevation or up-rooting, which pulls the word from the language: the other of gravity, which makes it return. The poem is an original and unique creation, but it is also reading and recitation: participation. The poet creates it; the people, by recitation, re-create it. Poet and reader are two moments of a single reality.” PeopleArtTwoMomentsRealityPoetryReadingLanguageForceCreationPoetReturnReaderUniqueOriginalsGravityParticipationOpposingElevationRecitation Book:The Bow and the Lyre: The Poem, The Poetic Revelation, Poetry and History Source: The Bow and the Lyre: The Poem, The Poetic Revelation, Poetry and History
“I am losing my Soviet citizenship, I do not cease to be a Russian poet. I believe that I will return. Poets always return in flesh or on paper.” BelieveI BelievePoetReturnPaperLosingFleshCeaseSovietCitizenship Author:Joseph Brodsky
“I don't pretend to understand him, but I can enjoy him as a poet and comedian. I liked the idea of the eternal return. Sometimes I think that being on tour year after year is an eternal return; you play a certain club in Copenhagen and then ten years later you are back again, traveling the same roads year after year.” ThinkingYearsI CanIdeasSometimesPlayCertainEnjoyPoetReturnTenEternalClubsComedianBack AgainCopenhagen Author:Dean Wareham
“I do feel that now and I feel that this development of recording poems, of speaking poems at readings, of having records of poets, I think this is a wonderful thing. I'm very excited by it. In a sense, there's a return, isn't there, to the old role of the poet, which was to speak to a group of people, to come across.” PeopleThinkingFeelsReadingSpeakRolesRecordsWonderfulGroupsPoetDevelopmentReturnExcitedWonderful Things Author:Sylvia Plath