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“What matters Death, if Freedom be not dead? No flags are fair, if Freedom's flag be furled. Who fights for Freedom, goes with joyful tread To meet the fires of Hell against him hurled.”

Ifs Matter Poetry Fighting Hell Fire Fairs Flags Joyful What Matters Fighting For Freedom

Book:Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems

Source: Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems

“A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.]”

Matter Poetry Comic Tragic Verses

Author:Horace

“Poetry, I thought then, and still do, is a matter of space on the page interrupted by a few well-chosen words, to give them importance. Prose is a less grand affair which has to stretch to the edges of the page to be convincing.”

Giving Wells Stills Matter Poetry Literature Space Pages Importance Affair Edges Chosen Prose Convincing Interrupted

Book:Auto da Fay: A Memoir

Source: Auto da Fay: A Memoir

“we are far too used to the assumption that poetry and poets will be there when we want them, no matter how long they have been ignored, taken for granted, misused. After all, isn't poetry a form of prophecy, and aren't prophets known for their talent for flourishing in inhospitable deserts and other bleak surroundings? Maybe. But maybe not indefinitely.”

Source: A movement of poets: thoughts on poetry and feminism

“Most poets who have little or nothing to say are concerned primarily with the way in which they say it ... if it is true that the style of a poem and the poem itself are one, ... it may be ... that the poets who have little or nothing to say are, or will be, the poets that matter.”

Ifs Way May Littles Art Matter Poetry Style Poet Concerned

Book:Collected Poetry and Prose

Source: Collected Poetry and Prose

“It is never what a poem says that matters, but what it is.”

Art Matter Poetry

Author:I. A. Richards

“At the outset, it is only liking, not understanding, that matters. Gaps in understanding ... are not only important, they are perhaps even welcome, like clearings in the woods, the better to allow the heart's rays to stream out without obstacle. The unlit shadows should remain obscure, which is the very condition of enchantment.”

Should Heart Important Matter Poetry Literature Understanding Conditions Shadow Obstacles Woods Welcome Streams Gaps Rays Obscure Enchantment Clearing

Author:Andre Breton

“Time has nothing to do with the matter.”

Matter Poetry Effort Poet Criticism

Author:Moliere

“Of all human events, perhaps, the publication of a first volume of verses is the most insignificant; but though a matter of no moment to the world, it is still of some concern to the author.”

World Firsts Humans Stills Matter Moments Poetry Literature Events Poet Concern Verses Volume Insignificant Publication

Book:Published Poems: The Writings of Herman Melville

Source: Published Poems: The Writings of Herman Melville

“Poetry is concerned with using with abusing, with losing with wanting, with denying with avoiding with adoring with replacing the noun. It is doing that always doing that, doing that and doing nothing but that. Poetry is doing nothing but using losing refusing and pleasing and betraying and caressing nouns. That is what poetry does, that is what poetry has to do no matter what kind of poetry it is. And there are a great many kinds of poetry.”

Kind Doe Matter Poetry Poet Losing Concerned No Matter What Great Men Poetry Is Betray Avoiding Doing Nothing Nouns

Book:Writings, 1903-1932: Q.E.D., Three lives, Portraits and other short works, The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

Source: Writings, 1903-1932: Q.E.D., Three lives, Portraits and other short works, The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

“That the mere matter of a poem, for instance--its subject, its given incidents or situation; that the mere matter of a picture--the actual circumstances of an event, the actual topography of a landscape--should be nothing without the form, the spirit of the handling, that this form, this mode of handling, should become an end in itself, should penetrate every part of the matter;Mthis is what all art constantly strives after, and achieves in different degrees.”

Should Art Different Ends Matter Form Spirit Poetry Given Situation Achieve Subjects Events Poet Circumstances Degrees Unity Mere Strive Instance Landscape Strife Penetrate Incidents Topography

Author:Walter Pater

“Well, write poetry, for God's sake, it's the only thing that matters.”

Writing Wells Matter Poetry Sake Things That Matter Only Thing That Matters

Author:e. e. cummings

“Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter...the troublesom and modern bondage of Rimeing.”

Matter Age Poetry Modern Invention Verses Bondage Wretched Ornaments Lame

Author:John Milton

“To the question, ‘Is the cinema an art?’ my answer is, ‘what does it matter?’... You can make films or you can cultivate a garden. Both have as much claim to being called an art as a poem by Verlaine or a painting by Delacroix… Art is ‘making.’ The art of poetry is the art of making poetry. The art of love is the art of making love... My father never talked to me about art. He could not bear the word.”

Love Doe Art Matter Film Poetry Father Answers Love Is Painting Bears Art Is Garden Claims Cinema Poetry Is Questioning Filmmaking Making Love Cultivating Does It Matter Cinematography

Author:Jean Renoir

“No matter how much we learn, there is always more knowledge to be gained. In this connection I am reminded of a short poem that has been in my mind over the years. It reads as follow: I used to think I knew I knew. But now I must confess. The more I know I know I know I know I know the less.”

Thinking Knows Years Mind Has Beens Matter Used Poetry Learning Connections More Knowledge

Author:A. Ray Olpin

“There comes a point in your life when you realize: Who matters, Who never did, Who won't anymore, And who always will. So, don't worry about people from your past, there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.”

People Life Matter Reason Past Poetry Realizing Worry Future Letting Go Reason Why Our Future Our Past Your Future Your Past People In Your Life Stop Worrying

Author:Adam Lindsay Gordon

“If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty, he sinks into oblivion. Society, on the other hand, has no obligation toward the poet. A majority by definition, society thinks of itself as having other options than reading verses, no matter how well written. Its failure to do so results in its sinking to that level of locution at which society falls easy prey to a demagogue or a tyrant. This is society's own equivalent of oblivion.”

“They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.”

Ifs Writing Wells Matter Poetry Poet Likes

Author:Tom Glazer

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