#poe

With the question of the effect of a poem, the topic of investigation shifts from that of textual autonomy to textual reception - to the issue of what we actually look for or find in reading a poem. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

#autonomy #effect #find #investigation #issue

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#life #remembering #worth

I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age. I wrote a lot of stories and poetry and... I had a desire to create always. And I always had a desire to show my work. ↗

— P. J. Harvey

#always #artist #create #desire #even

I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets. ↗

— P. J. Harvey

#film-makers #i #i am #influenced #more

I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time. ↗

— Robert Hass

#going #i #i think #idea #job

I used to carry about with me a German map-case filled with poems. ↗

— John C. Hawkes

#carry #filled #german #i #me

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#artist #cannot #deal #expressed #find

Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture. ↗

— Helen Hayes

#detail #look #only #picture #poet

I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do. ↗

— J. Milton Hayes

#eye #five #god #green #had

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#cannot #contempt #else #heart #himself