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“I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a bad thing. It depends on the ability of the individual poet to do it well, and to make a shape which is interesting enough to hold your attention.”

Thinking Wells Enough Individual Ability Interesting Attention Poet Depends Shapes Agree Impulse Visuals Bad Things

Author:James Laughlin

“In some ways painters have been more important in my life than writers. Painters teach you how to see—a faculty that usually isn’t highly developed in poets. Whether you take a walk in the woods with a painter, or go to a museum with one, through them you notice shapes, colors, harmonies, relationships that enhance your own seeing.”

Way Has Beens Important Walks Teach Seeing Color Poet Shapes Harmony Woods Painter Faculty Museums Walk In The Woods

Author:Carolyn Kizer

“The reason why Matthew Arnold, to my feeling, fails entirely as a poet (though no doubt his ideas were good - at least, I am told they were) is that he had no sense of touch whatsoever. Nothing made any impression on his skin. He could feel neither the shape nor the texture of a poem with his hands.”

Feels Made Ideas Reason Feelings Hands Doubt Failing Poet Shapes Skins Impression Reason Why No Doubt Texture Matthew

Book:Ser. Milton and the Augustan Age

Source: Ser. Milton and the Augustan Age

“A poet's soul must contain the perfect shape of all things good, wise and just. His body must be spotless and without blemish, his life pure, his thoughts high, his studies intense.”

Soul Body Perfect Study Wise Poet Pure Shapes All Things Intense Good Wise

Book:Collected essays

Source: Collected essays

“Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath.”

Giving Art Poetry Artist Poet Shapes Breaths

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Every poem, formal or free, has an ideal shape, and the job of the poet is to find it.”

Jobs Poet Shapes Ideals Formal

Author:Peter Meinke

“At birth we begin to discover that shapes, sounds, lights, and textures have meaning. Long before we learn to talk, sounds and images form the world we live in. All our lives, that world is more immediate than words and difficult to articulate. Photography, reflecting those images with uncanny accuracy, evokes their associations and our instant conviction. The art of the photographer lies in using those connotations, as a poet uses the connotations of words and a musician the tonal connotations of sounds.”

“In almost every book I've written, there is a reference to a movie - legendary films, actors and actresses, and forgotten made-for-TV movies. The leaps poems make are not unlike the cuts in a film. The miniature and avant-garde prose poets have perhaps the most obvious ties to film, as a prose poem in its shape is not unlike a movie screen.”

Made Book Film Actors Cutting Written Poet Tvs Shapes Forgotten Obvious Actresses Screens Ties Prose Leap Legendary Avant Garde Miniatures Actors And Actresses Film Actors

Author:Denise Duhamel

“The poet, as a rule, is a half-man - a sissy, not a real person, and he is in no shape to lead real men in matters of blood, or courage.”

Men Persons Real Matter Half Blood Poet Shapes Real Men Real Person Sissy

Author:Charles Bukowski

“The formal stuff feels old and windy. Not to say you shouldn't know prosody. But it's a wonderful time for exploratory poetics. Contemporary poets are inventing all kinds of wild, complex shapes for poetry, as we see. It's a wonderful time, less ego-centered.”

Knows Feels Kind Stuff Wonderful Poet Shapes Ego Complexes Contemporary All Kinds Formal Inventing Windy Wonderful Times Prosody

Author:Anne Waldman

“A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.”

World Poetry Names Sides Sleep Courage Poet Shapes Argument Poetry Is Fraud Going To Sleep Great Poetry Poetry By Poets Satanic Verses

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.”

Wells Made Growing Up Growing Poet Shapes Trade Toes Scorn

Author:William Butler Yeats