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“Modern poets add a lot of water to their ink.”

Poetry Water Modern Poet Add Ink

Book:Goethe's Criticisms, Reflections, and Maxims

Source: Goethe's Criticisms, Reflections, and Maxims

“It starts off like climbing a tree or solving a puzzle - poetry, if nothing else, is just fun to write. But deeper into each and every piece, you no longer hesitate to call it work. It's passion. A poet's sense of lyrical accomplishment is then his food and water, his means of survival.”

Ifs Writing Mean Passion Fun Water Pieces Tree Poet Survival Deeper Accomplishment Working It Climbing Puzzles Lyrical

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“People who stand near the water in the darkness are either lovers or poets. Or else ... one of that great gray number who've simply had it -- who throw in their hand and won't play anymore.”

People Play Hands Water Numbers Darkness Poet Lovers Gray

Author:Wolfgang Borchert

“When I was young I once found a book in a Dutch translation, 'The leaves of Grass'. It was the first time a book touched me by its feeling of freedom and open spaces, the way the poet spoke of the ocean by describing a drop of water in his hand. Walt Whitman was offering the world an open hand (now we call it democracy) and my 'Monument for Walt Whitman' became this open hand with mirrors, so you can see inside yourself.”

“Modern poets mix too much water with their ink. [Ger., Neuere Poeten thun viel Wasser in die Tinte.]”

Dies Water Too Much Modern Poet Ink

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.”

Poetry Literature Speak Water Poet Mark Socialism Socialist Auden Kipling

Author:George Orwell

“And me happiest when I compose poems: Love, power, the huzza of battle are something, are much: yet a poem includes them like a pool water and reflection.”

Poetry Water Poet Battle Reflection Pool Power Of Love

Book:A Wild Peculiar Joy: The Selected Poems

Source: A Wild Peculiar Joy: The Selected Poems

“I think that poets can say, "What we want is for everybody on earth to wake up free from fear and with access to medicine and clean water and education." But I don't think poets have any special insight on how to get there. And the 20th century is a pretty good record of that because so many of the great poets were Stalinists: Vallejo, Neruda, Eluard, Aragon, etc. They wrote their odes to Lenin and Stalin. They glorified some of the most violent and grotesque dictatorships of the 20th century. And a lot of the ones who were not Stalinists were fascists or fascist sympathizers.”