#poetry

When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

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I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

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A grain of poetry suffices to season a century. ↗

— Jose Marti

#grain #poetry #season #suffices

My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding. ↗

— Harry Mathews

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Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence. ↗

— Harry Mathews

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Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they're saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#actually #between #dislocation #distance #good

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#charms #convince #done #enough #must

I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

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Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

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For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

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