#poetry

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

The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths. ↗

— Gilbert Murray

#did #express #fictitious #greek #heroic

I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry. ↗

— Story Musgrave

#appears #being #embedded #form #i

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that. ↗

— Mary Oliver

#empty #into #life #make #out

I've done a number of readings at poetry lounges in Vancouver and Los Angeles. I've compiled a book of poetry that's completed, and two others I'm working on. ↗

— Corin Nemec

#book #compiled #completed #done #i

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#about #i #making #poem #sometimes

I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#chiefly #come #eliot #history #i

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#anything #happen #i #makes #never

I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does. ↗

— Charles Olson

#does #else #far #i #live

You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble. ↗

— Charles Olson

#been #help #help people #i #life