#poetry

While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#also #because #choice #culture #days

Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige. ↗

— George Murray

#big #big deal #books #deal #even

Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too. ↗

— George Murray

#fine #fine line #harder #humour #i

To create art means to be crazy alone forever. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#bukowskisism #poetry #art

There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song. ↗

— Phil Ochs

#available #deeply #effective #every #headline

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#fear #fraud #friend #greed #imagination

I write poetry in order to live more fully. ↗

— Judith Rodriguez

#i #i write #live #more #order

Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go. ↗

— Laura Riding

#brings #cannot #consciousness #degree #experience

If there is passion, let me feel its heat. I want my heart to beat fast, my breath raspy, my skin to burn. ↗

— Susie Clevenger

#beauty #discovery #love #lust #passion

Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist. Pink dragonflies fall from the air and become scorpions scratching blood out of rocks. The rainbows that dangle upon this mist: shatter. Like the smile of a child separated from his mother’s milk for the very first time. --from poem Blood and Blossoms ↗

— Aberjhani

#gardens #mysticism #paranormal-poetry #poetry #romaniticism