#poe

The best public poems aren't necessarily those that go at the subject like a bull at a gate. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#bull #gate #go #like #necessarily

Well, it's a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#badge #big #big deal #both #conventional

Un soir qu'ils étaient couchés l'un près de l'autre, comme elle lui demandait d'inventer un poème qui commencerait par je connais un beau pays, il s'exécuta sur-le-champ. Je connais un beau pays Il est de l'or et d'églantine Tout le monde s'y sourit Ah quelle aventure fine Les tigres y sont poltrons Les agneaux ont fière mine À tous les vieux vagabonds Ariane donne des tartines. Alors, elle lui baisa le la main, et il eut honte de cette admiration. ↗

— Albert Cohen

#poetry #romantic #romantic

For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry. ↗

— Paul Muldoon

#including #interested #otherwise #people #poetry

Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent. ↗

— Paul Muldoon

#engage #extent #living #many #pitch

That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were. ↗

— Paul Muldoon

#crop #does #great #great things #just

The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives. ↗

— Paul Muldoon

#key #lives #moments #other #out

Frost isn't exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was. ↗

— Paul Muldoon

#despised #enough #enough people #exactly #frost

The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#experiences #i #lengthy #made #notes

In my opinion, Al Moritz may be the best poet of his generation in Canada. ↗

— George Murray

#best #canada #generation #his #in my opinion