#poetry

It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#despair #difficulty #fear #optimism #poetry

Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#bottom #boy #echoes #familiar #feeling

A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#about #defined #feelings #frailties #human

Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#bears #each #poems #quite #read

I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#i #just #like #poetry #slaps

I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#believe #cooperate #family #however #i

I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#complexities #did #ended #explain #hughes

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#field #limits #literary #only #outside

It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#clay #most #poetry #roots #strong

I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#again #cannot #exclusively #hour #i