#poe

Let me tell you something about meditation. At the absolute center, is the vortex we are spun from like clay, there is a shaping hand which is neither Godlike nor peaceful as you imagine. ↗

— Forrest Gander

#imagination

Be Visionary ... ↗

— R.M. Engelhardt

#be-visionary #ny #poetry #qoutes-on-writing #r-m-engelhardt

The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within. ↗

— Yehudi Menuhin

#gift #grows #hide #lies #must

The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong. ↗

— George Meredith

#man #nothing #poet #science #wrong

Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing. ↗

— W. S. Merwin

#get #joke #like #lost #making

Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative. ↗

— Adrian Mitchell

#different #first #more #performance #poetry

At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#brushes #force #frustrated #getting #go

Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while. ↗

— W.B. Yeats

#hope #literature #memory #poetry #art

Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can't be related to other forms of historical poetry. ↗

— Thurston Moore

#because #becomes #forms #historical #i

I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#comes #i #i think #impersonate #kind