“You will not find the warrior, the poet, the philosopher or the Christian by staring into his eyes as if he were your mistress: better fight beside him, read with him, argue with him, pray with him.” IfsEyeChristianFightingPoetPrayingPhilosopherArguingWarriorStaringHis EyesMistress Author:C. S. Lewis
“Most poets, most good poets even, no longer have the heart to write about what is most terrible in the world of the present: the bombs waiting beside the rockets, the hundreds of millions staring into the temporary shelter of their television sets, the decline of the West that seems less a decline than the fall preceding an explosion.” WorldWritingHeartSeemsFallWaitingMillionsTelevisionPoetTerribleWestStaringBombsTemporaryDeclineShelterExplosionsRockets Author:Randall Jarrell
“Indolence of course is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous word factories, staring at screens. They are rather to be found lolling on the sofa or strolling through the groves, nursing their melancholic temperaments and losing themselves in extended reveries.” CoursesFoundProcessCreativePoetLosingSittingScreensStaringCrucialFactoriesCreative ProcessTemperamentNursingStrollingIndolenceSofasGroveReverie Author:Tom Hodgkinson
“If a poem is written well, it was written with the poet's voice and for a voice. Reading a poem silently instead of saying a poem is like the difference between staring at sheet music and actually humming or playing the music on an instrument.” IfsWellsReadingVoiceDifferencesWrittenPoetInstrumentsStaringSheetsHummingSheet Music Author:Robert Pinsky