#poetry

The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#jet #poetry #stopping

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. ↗

— Plato

#history #nearer #than #truth #vital

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. ↗

— Plutarch

#painting #silent #speaks

The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry. ↗

— Reynolds Price

#fiction #find #going #got #i

There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#forever #joy #little #poetry #pound

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#i love #i write #love #poetry #time

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. ↗

— Robert Frost

#begins #homesickness #lump #poem #sense

Poetry is what gets lost in translation. ↗

— Robert Frost

#gets #lost #translation

Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies. ↗

— Tomas Transtromer

#dark #distinction #drifts #further #his

The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#also #barometer #forget #let us #may