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“It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile.”

People Want Strange Poet Exile

Author:Peter Bichsel

“Maeterlinck says that compared with ordinary truths mystic truths have strange privileges - they can neither age nor die. Beauty is eternal and ugliness, thank God, is ephemeral. Can there be any question as to which should attract the poet?”

Should Age Dies Strange Poet Eternal Ordinary Privilege Thank God Ugliness Mystic Ephemeral

Author:Florence Earle Coates

“While the poet entertains he continues to search for eternal truths, for the essence of being. In his own fashion he tries to solve the riddle of time and change, to find an answer to suffering, to reveal love in the very abyss of cruelty and injustice. Strange as these words may sound I often play with the idea that when all the social theories collapse and wars and revolutions leave humanity in utter gloom, the poet--whom Plato banned from his Republic--may rise up to save us all.”

Source: Aspects of I.B. Singer

“There's always some reason not to be writing and I regret the times I give in to that, because then writing feels strange - I feel like I have to reinvent the wheel. There are poets who don't have to do that.”

Giving Feels Writing Reason Strange Poet Regret Wheels I Regret

Author:Joan Larkin

“Imagination is the supreme endowment of the poet and romanticist. It is a kind of second sight, which conveys the owner of it to places he has never seen, and surrounds him with strange circumstances of which he is merely the spiritual eyewitness.”

Kind Spiritual Imagination Strange Poet Circumstances Sight Supreme Owners Surround Endowment Eyewitnesses

Author:Marie Corelli

“There shall be poets! When woman's unmeasured bondage shall be broken, when she shall live for and through herself, man--hitherto detestable--having let her go, she, too, will be poet! Woman will find the unknown! Will her ideational worlds be different from ours? She will come upon strange, unfathomable, repellent, delightful things; we shall take them, we shall comprehend them.”

Men World Different Strange Poet Broken Delightful Bondage Unfathomable Let Her Go Delightful Things

Author:Arthur Rimbaud

“I would say there are different kinds of poems. There are things that poets in the history of poetry hit upon when they're very young that can never be outdone and it's a remarkable, strange experience when you think of say Arthur Rimbaud who write poetry between the ages of 17 and 21 whose career was over by the time he was 22.”

Thinking Writing Kind Different Age Young Careers Strange Poet Remarkable Poetry Is Different Kinds Arthur

Author:Edward Hirsch

“There's a Welsh poet, R.S. Thomas. He was a very crotchety, strange man, but his poems are wonderful. He was nominated for the Nobel in the 1990s but never won.”

Men Wonderful Strange Poet Nobel Welsh Strange Man

Author:Stephen Dobyns

“It's this thing that's going on all the time - aging. Paul Auster quotes the poet George Opren on growing old: "What a strange thing to happen to a little boy." Which I think is so profound.”

Thinking Boys Strange Poet Aging Profound Growing Old Little Boys

Author:Geoff Dyer

“Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment?”

Should Ideas Different Fantasy Subjects Inspire Strange Poet Guilty Flames Treatment Composer

Author:Franz Schubert