Quotes en massse
11/05/2001 10:04 a.m.
I'm no good with words, so here're some things some people said about something I do that I happen to agree with, or at least find beauty and truth in...:


"All genuine poetry is in a sense the formation of private spheres out of public chaos..."--W. H. Auden


"You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some with you."-- Joubert


"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those we have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these things."--Emily Dickinson


"Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history"--Plato


"Most people ognore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people."--Adrian Mitchell


"Poetry is what gets lost in translation."--Robert Frost


"Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them."--Charles Simic


"Poetry isn't a thing which you get. it's a thing which gets you. All you can do is go where it can find you."--Winnie the Pooh


"Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement."--Christopher Fry


"The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned into prose, but that it has turned into advertising copy."--Louis Kronenberger


"All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling."--Oscar Wilde


"I have nothing to say and am saying it and that is poetry." --John Cage


"If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money."--Robert Graves


"Science is for those who learn; poetry is for those who know."--Joseph Roux


"Out of our quarrels with others we make rhetoric. Out of our quarrels with ourselves we make poetry."--William Butler Yeats


"I'm a poet, which means I'm unbalanced as far as the public is concerned."--Anon


"A great poet, really great poet. is the most unpoetic of all creatures. But inferior poets ae absolutely fascinating."--Oscar Wilde
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I am listening to Tori Amos -- Strange Little Girls