#poe

I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine. ↗

— Spike Milligan

#begin #i #mine #never #poem

To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#comedian #great #like #me #musician

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#life #literature #looking #looks #loudly

Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#art #differ #excursion #goal #journey

When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#gates #inside #into #mob #open

The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit. ↗

— George Grosz

#cult #genius #greater #individuality #itself

Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#deep #deep feeling #feeling #good #help

Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#collected #contains #ginsberg #making #neal

I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or more important than the passion of sex. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#deliberately #great #i #important #last

I try not to observe myself in the process of composing a poem because I don't want to come up with a formula, which I would then be unscrupulous in using. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#come #composing #formula #i #myself