Goodbye, you who are, for
Goodbye, you who are, for me, the postmarks again of shattered towns–Xenia, Burnt Cabins, Hornell– their loneliness given away in poems, only their solitude kept. Galway Kinnell
Poet
the rest of my
the rest of my days I spend wandering: wondering what, anyway, was that sticky infusion, that rank flavor of blood, that poetry, by which I lived? Galway Kinnell
The reader reads aloud,
The reader reads aloud, with a sing-song up … then down … then down again cadence. My mood shifts from merely reluctant to derisive. It’s a tired reading style. I’m sick of it. It attaches more importance to the words than the words themselves—as they’ve been arranged—could possibly sustain, and it gives poets and poetry … Read more
I cannot understand why
I cannot understand why the poets of our day wax indignant at the vulgarity of their age and complain of having come into the world too early or too late. I believe that every man of intellect can create his own beautiful fable of life. Gabriele d’Annunzio
He repeated until his
He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stonecutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or dangerous, than a poet. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The poet is an
The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns. Gabriela Mistral
The mathematician’s patterns, like
The mathematician’s patterns, like the painter’s or the poet’s, must be beautiful. G. H. Hardy
A mathematician, like a
A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas. G. H. Hardy
A mathematician, like a
A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. G. H. Hardy
The mathematician’s patterns, like
The mathematician’s patterns, like the painter’s or the poet’s must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics. G. H. Hardy