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“for what is the gift of the poet and the artist except to see the sights which others cannot see and to hear the sounds that others cannot hear?”

Art Poetry Artist Sound Poet Sight

Book:Bimbi: Stories for Children

Source: Bimbi: Stories for Children

“My ear is not working, my poetry ear. I can't write a line that doesn't sound like pots and pans falling out of the cupboard.”

Writing I Can Poetry Fall Sound Lines Ears Pot Cupboards Pots And Pans

Author:Jane Kenyon

“Poetry is that magic which consists in awakening sensations with the help of a combination of sounds ... that sorcery by which ideas are necessarily communicated to us, in a definite way, by words which nevertheless do not express them.”

Way Art Ideas Helping Poetry Sound Magic Awakening Combination Poetry Is Sensations Nevertheless Definite Sorcery

Author:John Banville

“Pound had argued - and Eliot had helped him prove - that a poem could be sustained by memorable moments. Olson proved that it could be sustained by unmemorable ones, provided that the texture of the accumulated jottings avoided the sound of failed poetry.”

Moments Poetry Literature Sound Prove Memorable Pounds Avoided Texture Eliot Memorable Moments

Book:Poetry Notebook: 2006–2014

Source: Poetry Notebook: 2006–2014

“A child playing with dolls may shed heartfelt tears when his bundle of rags and scraps becomes deathly ill and dies ... So we may come to an understanding of language as playing with dolls: in language, scraps of sound are used to make dolls and replace all the things in the world.”

World May Children Used Poetry Dies Literature Language Understanding Sound Tears Ill Shed Dolls Heartfelt Scrap Rags Bundles Children Playing

Author:Velimir Khlebnikov

“The idea that a student can write a sonnet or a novel without having a sound understanding about its history, and where it fits into literature as a whole, seems to me to be manifestly daft.”

Writing Ideas Whole Seems Poetry Literature Understanding Sound Novel Students Fit Sonnet Daft

Author:Nicholas Royle

“It is never the thing but the version of the thing: The fragrance of the woman not her self, Her self in her manner not the solid block, The day in its color not perpending time, Time in its weather, our most sovereign lord, The weather in words and words in sounds of sound.”

Self Poetry Time Sound Lord Color Poet Perception Versions Weather Block Sovereign Fragrance

Book:The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

“When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines.”

Poetry Sound Poet Machines Critics Bees Sewing Bumble Bee

Author:Mason Cooley

“Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.”

Art Poetry Sound Poet Pure Complexes Bounds Symbols Poetry Is Conventional Arbitrary

Author:Ezra Pound

“Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal mind than as if arbitrarily composed by the poet.”

Ifs Mind Firsts Has Beens Poetry Sound Written Poet Eternal First Time Invisible Tablets Good Poetry

Book:The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.”

Writing Believe Poetry Sound Poet Exciting Statements Being True Lovesickness

Author:W. H. Auden

“Silence is a sounding thing, To one who listens hungrily”

Poetry Sound Silence Music Listening African American Silence Is

Author:Gwendolyn B. Bennett

“The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.”

Firsts Poetry Sound

Book:Muthologos: the collected lectures & interviews

Source: Muthologos: the collected lectures & interviews