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“A poet wants only one small stone on which to carve his life.”

Want Poetry Poet Stones

Author:Joan Walsh Anglund

“Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.”

Poetry Found Poet Stones Lakes Sermons Wordsworth

Book:The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde

“... in a history of spiritual rupture, a social compact built on fantasy and collective secrets, poetry becomes more necessary than ever: it keeps the underground aquifers flowing; it is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.”

Spiritual Spirit Poetry Social Voice Secret Fantasy Poet Built Stones Collectives Poetry Is Liquid Compact Rupture Aquifers

Book:What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)

Source: What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)

“In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, Snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.”

“The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.”

Writing Firsts Children Poetry Stones Throwing Writing Poetry Reverberation Poetry Reading Throwing Stones

Author:James Fenton

“Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.”

Poetry Cutting Rocks Genius Stones Cherries Milton Colossus

Author:Samuel Johnson

“Thinking is always the stumbling stone to poetry.”

Thinking Life Poetry Stones Stumbling

Book:The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

“Whatever is not stone is light”

Light Poetry Stones Shining Mexican

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Peitaho Heavy rains fall on Yuyen, the northland kingdom of swallows. White pages of rain envelop the sky, and fishing boats off the Island of the Emperor Chin disappear on the ocean. Which way have they gone? More than a thousand years ago the mighty emperor Tsao Tsao cracked his whip and drove his army against the Tartars. He left us a poem: "Let us move east to the Stone Mountains." Today we still shiver in the autumn gale, in desolate winds, yet another man is in the world.”