#poe

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. ↗

— Abraham Maslow

#himself #make #music #musician #must

My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#back #get #how #i #kidding

Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#adolescence #eleven #great #had #i

Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they're saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#actually #between #dislocation #distance #good

The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#only #passes #poet #prose #step

I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it. ↗

— Callan McAuliffe

#fancy #hard #i #lost #paradise

The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe's pajamas. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#color #edgar #pajamas #poe #sky

To me, Doors fans were always the 16-year-old idiots at parties, getting stoned, and talking about how Morrison's lyrics were like poetry... like that was a deep thought. ↗

— Bruce McCulloch

#always #deep #doors #fans #getting

I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories. ↗

— Bobby McFerrin

#children #i #poetry #stories #want

The talent of a true writer and poet is in the ear. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#poet #talent #true #writer