“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?” ArtPoetryArtistSoundPoetSight 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.” WritingI CanPoetryFallSoundLinesEarsPotCupboardsPots 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.” WayArtIdeasHelpingPoetrySoundMagicAwakeningCombinationPoetry IsSensationsNeverthelessDefiniteSorcery 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.” MomentsPoetryLiteratureSoundProveMemorablePoundsAvoidedTextureEliotMemorable 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.” WorldMayChildrenUsedPoetryDiesLiteratureLanguageUnderstandingSoundTearsIllShedDollsHeartfeltScrapRagsBundlesChildren 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.” WritingIdeasWholeSeemsPoetryLiteratureUnderstandingSoundNovelStudentsFitSonnetDaft 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.” SelfPoetryTimeSoundLordColorPoetPerceptionVersionsWeatherBlockSovereignFragrance 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.” PoetrySoundPoetMachinesCriticsBeesSewingBumble 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.” ArtPoetrySoundPoetPureComplexesBoundsSymbolsPoetry IsConventionalArbitrary Author:Ezra Pound