#poetry

I fain would follow love, if that could be; I needs must follow death, who calls for me; Call and I follow, I follow! let me die. ↗

— Alfred Tennyson

#love #poetry #death

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them. ↗

— Dennis Gabor

#making #music #plucking #them

Writing consist of everything. whether your writing is of riddles, rimes, prose, trivial, general, of thought, or of feeling. indiscretions you've done or have fantasized about. love, deception, romance, fear, death, life, pain, & yes even happiness. writing is of a specific purpose & states a meaning within what is written. ↗

— Michael Stuckey

#poetry #recipes #writer #writing #death

The crown of literature is poetry. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#literature #poetry

There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives. ↗

— Hamlin Garland

#farmers #ferocious #glamor #light #poetry

We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry. ↗

— James Laughlin

#anthology #any #attempt #just #like

Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going. ↗

— James Laughlin

#beautiful #beautiful things #belong #book #concrete

I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago. ↗

— James Laughlin

#ago #any #as far as #come #concrete

I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don't say anything to me at all, I mean they seem to me rather ordinary and pedestrian. ↗

— James Laughlin

#becomes #friend #i #i think #individual

I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world. ↗

— James Laughlin

#american #deal #excuse #going #good