#poem

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#civilized #genius #great #hold #most

A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#give #music #poem #said #translation

Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they're saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#actually #between #dislocation #distance #good

People can put their best poems straight onto the web. ↗

— Roger McGough

#onto #people #poems #put #straight

I'm a peasant I'm the muzhik A pest you're destined to play the music And yes it's pleasant to say it's beauty I'm Indebted to rest respecting it truly ↗

— Criss Jami

#art #beauty #creation #creativity #credit

What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#fades #feeling #larger #lighter #never

In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity. ↗

— Marianne Moore

#excitement #fabric #governed #gravity #i

A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#connection #discovery #does #form #gesture

I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#choice #compare #completely #different #era

I love chapbooks. They're in some ways the ideal form in which to publish and read poems. You can read 19 poems in a way you can't sit down and read 60 to 70 pages of poems. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#form #i #i love #ideal #love