Time Poetry Quotes

• The difference between prose logic and poetic thought is simple. The logician uses words as a builder uses bricks, for the unemotional deadness of his academic prose; and is always coining newer, deader words with a natural preference for Greek formations. The poet avoids the entire vocabulary of logic unless for satiric purposes, and treats words as living creatures with a preference for those with long emotional histories dating from mediaeval times. Poetry at its purest is, indeed, a defiance of logic.

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  Robert Graves

  Simple   Emotional   Differences  

  Robert Graves, Patrick J. Quinn (2000). “Some speculations on literature, history, and religion”, Carcanet Press Ltd.

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• i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)

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  e. e. cummings

  Love   Relationship   Valentines Day  

  E. E. Cummings (2013). “Like a perhaps hand: Poems. Gedichte”, p.45, C.H.Beck

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• I've never been able to write poetry without having vast tracts of dead time. Poetry requires a certain kind of disciplined indolence that the world, including many prose writers, doesn't recognize as discipline. It is, though. It's the discipline to endure hours that you refuse to fill with anything but the possibility of poetry, though you may in fact not be able to write a word of it just then, and though it may be playing practical havoc with your life. It's the discipline of preparedness.

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  Christian Wiman

  Writing   Discipline   World  

  3169

• But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

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  Robert Frost

  Love   Inspirational   Tattoo  

  "Stopping byWoods on a Snowy Evening" l. 13 (1923)

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• In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.

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  Juan Goytisolo

  Drama   Criticism   Narrative  

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• When you think intensely and beautifully, something happens. That something is called poetry. If you think that way and speak at the same time, poetry gets in your mouth. If people hear you, it gets in their ears. If you think that way and write at the same time, then poetry gets written. But poetry exists in any case. The question is only: are you going to take part, and if so, how?

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  Robert Bringhurst

  Writing   Thinking   People  

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• The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep...

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  Robert Frost

  Tattoo   Running   Taken  

  "Stopping byWoods on a Snowy Evening" l. 13 (1923)

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• Poets are political, they have to be reflections of their times [because] they're living in their times... Poetry is political in that it's standing in opposition to fascism. Good poetry asks a bunch of questions and asks the audience to interact with themselves or see themselves in it; maybe you like it or you don't like it. But the fascist sort of stuff plays on your fears and tells you to jump on the party line and gives some simple excuses - blame this person.

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  John Cusack

  Party   Reflection   Simple  

  "The Raven - John Cusack interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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