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“A poet wants only one small stone on which to carve his life.”

Want Poetry Poet Stones

Author:Joan Walsh Anglund

“The work of the painter, the poet or the musician, like the myths and symbols of the savage, ought to be seen by us, if not as a superior form of knowledge, at least as the most fundamental and the only one really common to us all; scientific thought is merely the sharp point more penetrating because it has been whetted on the stone of fact, but at the cost of some loss of substance and its effectiveness is to be explained by its power to pierce sufficiently deeply for the main body of the tool to follow the head.”

Ifs Has Beens Facts Body Form Loss Common Poet Ought Cost Musician Tools Stones Fundamentals Myth Superiors Painter Symbols Substance Savages Effectiveness Pierce

Book:Tristes Tropiques

Source: Tristes Tropiques

“Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.”

Poetry Found Poet Stones Lakes Sermons Wordsworth

Book:The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde

“... in a history of spiritual rupture, a social compact built on fantasy and collective secrets, poetry becomes more necessary than ever: it keeps the underground aquifers flowing; it is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.”

Spiritual Spirit Poetry Social Voice Secret Fantasy Poet Built Stones Collectives Poetry Is Liquid Compact Rupture Aquifers

Book:What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)

Source: What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)

“At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.”

Feels Death Three Loss Poet Stones Temples Three Words Geisha

Author:Arthur Golden