#poe

My poems - I don't even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we know that only people who are really close to us care about our personal experience. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#anyone #care #close #else #even

There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers - encouraging them to die. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#alcoholism #books #die #encouraging #essays

Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft. ↗

— David Hockney

#poetry #teach #well #you

All a poet can do today is warn. ↗

— Wilfred Owen

#today #warn

Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children. ↗

— Alphonse Daudet

#eyes #people #poets #see #still

Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have. ↗

— Walter Pater

#beauty #been #between #discriminate #discussions

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius. ↗

— Albert Pike

#almost #artisans #artists #been #genius

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#art #auditory #because #certain #depend

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. ↗

— Plato

#becomes #everyone #poet #touch

When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#began #children #found #i #influenced