Alfred de Musset on Poetry
Sunday, June 29th, 2008Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred de Musset
Archive for the ‘Poetry’ Category
Novalis on Poetry
Thursday, June 26th, 2008Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
- Novalis
John Keats on Poetry
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008Poetry should… should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
- John Keats
Alfred de Musset on Poetry
Sunday, June 1st, 2008Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred de Musset
Jean Cocteau on Poetry
Saturday, May 31st, 2008Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
- Jean Cocteau
Leonard Cohen on Poetry
Friday, May 23rd, 2008Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
- Leonard Cohen
Salman Rushdie on Poetry
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008A poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
- Salman Rushdie
Charles Simic on Poetry
Monday, April 28th, 2008Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.
- Charles Simic
Andre Gide on Poetry
Saturday, April 5th, 2008Therefore is a word the poet must not know.
- Andre Gide
A. E. Housman on Poetry
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out… Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
- A. E. Housman
