“The trouble with poetry is it's often written to the sound of a drum only the poet may hear; nonetheless, blessed are those poets who always manage to find unshakeable pleasure in their own works.” MaySoundPleasureWrittenTroublePoetBlessedManagePoetry IsBlessed Are Those Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“Compose aloud: poetry is a sound. Never explain- your reader is as smart as you. Your reader is not just any reader, but is the rare one with ears in his head.” SoundReaderSmartEarsPoetry Is Author:Basil Bunting
“One of the primary differences for me between fiction and poetry is that fiction uses every sort of tool that poetry does but hides it much, much more. Fiction doesn't necessarily reveal what it's doing with rhythm and sound and patterning.” DoeUseSoundDifferencesFictionToolsRhythmPrimariesPoetry Is Author:Brian Evenson
“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.” WayArtIdeasHelpingPoetrySoundMagicAwakeningCombinationPoetry IsSensationsNeverthelessDefiniteSorcery Author:John Banville
“Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.” ArtPoetrySoundPoetPureComplexesBoundsSymbolsPoetry IsConventionalArbitrary Author:Ezra Pound