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I’m not very good at praying, but what I experience when I’m writing a poem is close to prayer. (What A Poem Is Quotes)
Ladies, when you write a poem for Feminism because that is what we sometimes do, remember that it’s never about them. It’s only about you. (What A Poem Is Quotes)
The only truth is face to face, the poem whose words become your mouth and dying in black and white we fight for what we love, not are (What A Poem Is Quotes)
In a poem, the words happen; they just come. I let them. Otherwise, I wouldn’t write. To interfere with what is happening is to distort the poem. Just a very small degree of intelligence and supervision is necessary. Very tactful. Any revision later that violates the text as it came, that begins rewriting the words, is fake (What A Poem Is Quotes)
The poem is not, as someone put it, deflective of entry. But the real question is, ‘What happens to the reader once he or she gets inside the poem?’ That’s the real question for me, is getting the reader into the poem and then taking the reader somewhere, because I think of poetry as a kind of form of travel writing (What A Poem Is Quotes)
Often people, when they’re confronted with a poem, it’s like someone who keep saying ‘what is the meaning of this? What is the meaning of this?’ And that dulls us to the other pleasures poetry offers (What A Poem Is Quotes)
I think what gets a poem going is an initiating line. Sometimes a first line will occur, and it goes nowhere; but other times - and this, I think, is a sense you develop - I can tell that the line wants to continue. If it does, I can feel a sense of momentum - the poem finds a reason for continuing (What A Poem Is Quotes)
What is it precisely, that feeling of ‘returning’ from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely (What A Poem Is Quotes)
Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, ‘God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.’ (What A Poem Is Quotes)
... the poem reminds us of what we ourselves know, but did not know we knew; reminds us, above all, of what we are (What A Poem Is Quotes)
To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into it what you like. So it becomes totally relative (What A Poem Is Quotes)
And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem (What A Poem Is Quotes)
I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me (What A Poem Is Quotes)
A poem is what the reader lives through under the guidance of the text and experiences as relevant to the text (What A Poem Is Quotes)
To do a poem justice, explain what makes it unique; to get a poem noticed, explain what makes it typical (What A Poem Is Quotes)
What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why (What A Poem Is Quotes)
What philosophy worthy of the name has truly been able to avoid the link between poem and theorem? (What A Poem Is Quotes)
What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them (What A Poem Is Quotes)
I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. the reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning (What A Poem Is Quotes)
What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude (What A Poem Is Quotes)
Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart (What A Poem Is Quotes)
A poem is not an expression, nor is it an object. Yet it somewhat partakes of both. What a poem is is never to be known, for which I have learned to be grateful (What A Poem Is Quotes)
Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where the poetry comes from. The most important things are to respect the language; to know the classical rules, even if only to break them; and to be prepared to edit, to revise, to shape (What A Poem Is Quotes)