Poetry

You can’t write poetry on the computer. ~Quentin Tarantino

Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition. ~Eli Khamarov, The Shadow Zone

Ink runs from the corners of my mouth
There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry.
~Mark Strand, “Eating Poetry,” Reasons for Moving, 1968

Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry. ~W.B. Yeats

“Therefore” is a word the poet must not know. ~André Gide

It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things. ~Stephen Mallarme

Even 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

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. ~Robert Frost

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. ~T.S. Eliot, Dante, 1920

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. ~W.H. Auden

A poet’s work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep. ~Salman Rushdie

From: Quote Garden

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