#poe

You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#back #deep #dive #does #get

I'm really clear about what my life mission is now. There's no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I've returned to the athlete I once was. I'm integrating all the parts of me - jock, musician, writer, poet, philosopher - and becoming stronger as a result. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#athlete #becoming #clear #depression #feel

It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry. ↗

— Samantha Morton

#images #like #people #poetry #some

When Keats says: 'Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses', what he means is that we don't necessarily believe what a poem is saying if it comes out and tells us in an absolutely head-on, in-your-face way; we only believe it to be true if we feel it to be true. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#axioms #be true #believe #comes #feel

While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#also #because #choice #culture #days

But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#admire #i #others #poet #wordsworth

One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way. ↗

— Paul Muldoon

#after #again #birch #exactly #frost

Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige. ↗

— George Murray

#big #big deal #books #deal #even

Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too. ↗

— George Murray

#fine #fine line #harder #humour #i

Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment. ↗

— Story Musgrave

#different #environment #medium #own #particular