Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again.
Greg BearThe poet, therefore, is truly the thief of fire.
He is responsible for humanity, for animals even; he will have to make sure his visions can be smelled, fondled, listened to; if what he brings back from beyond has form, he gives it form; if it has none, he gives it none. A language must be found…of the soul, for the soul and will include everything: perfumes, sounds colors, thought grappling with thought
Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is not as often true, and that madness is a fiction lived in like a rented house
William H. GassStichwörter: poetry madness poets
Poets are interested primarily in death and commas.
Carolyn KizerStichwörter: poetry death poets carolyn commas kizer
I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job
Seamus HeaneyStichwörter: poetry poets prosody
From oriole to crow, note the decline
In music. Crow is realist. But, then,
Oriole, also, may be realist.
Stichwörter: poets
A pear should come to the table popped with juice,
Ripened in warmth and served in warmth. On terms
Like these, autumn beguiles the fatalist.
Poetry is a finikin thing of air
That lives uncertainly and not for long
Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs.
We say God and the imagination are one . . .
How high that highest candle lights the dark.
Stichwörter: poetry poets prosody
Children picking up our bones
Will never know that these were once
As quick as foxes on the hill;
Stichwörter: poets
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