“Even the wisest man grows tense With some sort of violence Before he can accomplish fate, Know his work or choose his mate. Poet and sculptor, do the work, Nor let the modish painter shirk” KnowsMenArtWisdomArtistGrowsFateViolencePoetAccomplishPainterMatesTenseWisestSculptorsWisest ManShirk Book:The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition
“It is an evil world. The fires of hatred and violence burn fiercely. Evil is powerful, the devil covers a darkened earth with hisblack wings. And soon the end of the world is expected. But mankind does not repent, the church struggles, and the preachers and poets warn and lament in vain.” WorldDoeEndsEarthEvilChurchPowerfulStruggleFireViolenceMankindPoetDevilHatredWingsExpectedVainPreacherRepentEnd Of The WorldLamentEvil World Author:Johan Huizinga
“Look at this poet William Carlos Williams: he is primitive and native, and his roots are in raw forest and violent places; he is word-sick and place-crazy. He admires strength, but for what? Violence! This is the cult of the frontier mind.” MindLooksPoetryViolenceCrazyStrengthPoetRootsSickViolentForestsAdmireNativePrimitiveCultFrontiers Book:Alms for Oblivion Source: Alms for Oblivion
“I don't like realism. We already know the real facts about li[fe], most of the basic facts. I'm not interested in repeating what we already know. We know about sex, about violence, about murder, about war. All these things, by the time we're 18, we're up to here. From there on we need interpreters. We need poets. We need philosophers. We need theologians, who take the same basic facts and work with them and help us make do with those facts. Facts alone are not enough. It's interpretation.” KnowsNeedsWarRealEnoughFactsHelpingSexViolencePoetMurderPhilosopherInterpretationNot InterestedRealismTheologianInterpreter Author:Ray Bradbury
“The poet resists the pressures of reality, including the pressures of violence, in making, in forming, the poem. The tension is in the resistance - the poem is an act of resistance.” RealityViolencePoetTension Author:Lawrence Joseph