Everybody can write poetry,
Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love. Gao Xingjian
Quotes for All
Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love. Gao Xingjian
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
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
To break the pentameter, that was the first heave Ezra Pound
Poetry must be as well written as prose. Ezra Pound
In case I conk out, this is provisionally what I have to do: I must clarify obscurities; I must make clearer definite ideas or dissociations. I must find a verbal formula to combat the rise of brutality–the principle of order versus the split atom. Ezra Pound
In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular. Ezra Pound
Poetry is a very complex art…. It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols. Ezra Pound
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE. Ezra Pound
When something is too beautiful or too terrible or even too funny for words, then it is time for poetry. Eve Merriam