“When modernist poetry, or what not so long ago passed for modernist poetry, can reach the stage where the following piece by Mr. Ezra Pound is seriously offered as a poem, there is some justification for the plain reader and orthodox critic who shrinks from anything that may be labelled 'modernist' either in terms of condemnation or approbation. Better he thinks, that ten authentic poets should be left for posterity to discover than one charlatan should be allowed to steal into the Temple of Fame.” ThinkingShouldMayLongLeftTermPiecesStagePoetReaderFameTenCriticsFollowingStealingTemplesPoundsOrthodoxJustificationLong AgoShrinksPosterityCondemnationCharlatans Author:Laura Riding
“He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.” ThreeFivePoetMastersTenLifetimeHaiku Author:Matsuo Basho
“And when her biographer says of an Italian woman poet, 'during some years her Muse was intermitted,' we do not wonder at the fact when he casually mentions her ten children.” YearsChildrenFactsWonderPoetTenItalianWomens RightsMuseBiographers Book:Woman's Share in Social Culture Source: Woman's Share in Social Culture
“Horace, when he wrote the Ars Poetica, recommended that poets keep their poems home for ten years; don't let them go, don't publish them until you have kept them around for ten years: by that time, they ought to stop moving on you; by that time, you ought to have them right.” YearsHomeMovingPoetOughtTenPublish Book:Poetry and Ambition: Essays 1982-1988 Source: Poetry and Ambition: Essays 1982-1988
“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