“Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests.” PoetryPoetTerriblePraiseMeritPriestsTerrible Times Author:Jose Marti
“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
“The poet must be free to love or hate as the spirit moves him, free to change, free to be a chameleon, free to be an enfant terrible. He must above all never worry about this effect on other people.” PeopleMovingSpiritHateWorryEffectsPoetTerribleChameleonLove Or Hate Author:May Sarton
“Life consists Of propositions about life. The human Revery is a solitude in which We compose these propositions, torn by dreams, By the terrible incantations of defeats And by the fear that the defeats and the dreams are one. The whole race is a poet that writes down The eccentric propositions of its fate.” WritingHumansWholeDreamRaceFatePoetTerribleSolitudeDefeatTornPropositionsEccentric Book:Souvenirs and prophecies: the young Wallace Stevens Source: Souvenirs and prophecies: the young Wallace Stevens
“Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it. The great general is only terrible to the enemy; the great poet is frequently scolded by his wife; the children of the great statesman clamber about his knees with perfect trust and impunity; the great actor who is called before the curtain by admiring audiences is often waylaid at the stage door by his creditors.” ChildrenActorsPerfectEnemyAudienceWifeDoorsStagePoetTerribleGreat ThingsKneesAweRemoveCurtainsFamiliarityStatesmenGreat ActorsImpunityAdmiringGreat PoetCreditorsScolded Book:Delphi Complete Works of L. Frank Baum (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of L. Frank Baum (Illustrated)
“Those things which make the infernal regions terrible, the darkness, the prison, the river of flaming fire, the judgment seat, are all a fable, with which the poets amuse themselves, and by them agitate us with vain terrors.” DarknessFirePoetTerribleJudgmentRiversPrisonTerrorVainSeatsRegionsFablesAgitate Author:Seneca the Younger
“There are reviews that are clearly wrong. Dr. Johnson's famous Life of Savage, he's clearly wrong about the value of Savage. But it's one of the great works in English literature. You can learn more about the artistic expression and what the poet does and how to write about art from that than any number of guys who are terrible writers, who have no original ideas, but who say yes, "Hamlet" is a wonderful play. It's a meaningless statement.” WritingArtGuyValuesLiteratureWonderfulPoetTerribleArtisticMeaninglessGreat WorkEnglish Literature Author:Gary Giddins