#poe

But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#i #poems #want #write

In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being illustrations of poems or poems extrapolations of the pictures. ↗

— Peter Porter

#each #illustrations #in other words #kind #only

We simply have not kept in touch with poetry. ↗

— Paul Muldoon

#poetry #simply #touch

I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process. ↗

— George Murray

#composing #develop #fragmented #hunter #i

I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeare's sonnets. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#appealing #been #call #come #i

The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories. ↗

— Margaret Walker

#body #collective #comes #deep #irrational

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#between #candidate #distinction #key #only

I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry. ↗

— Ben Okri

#begins #circles #come #conscious #cycle

Novelists and poets have existed side by side forever. ↗

— Stan Brakhage

#forever #novelists #poets #side

Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are. ↗

— Julio Cortazar

#before #dreams #knows #only #play