#poetry

Spring is like a perhaps hand Spring is like a perhaps hand (which comes carefully out of Nowhere)arranging a window,into which people look(while people stare arranging and changing placing carefully there a strange thing and a known thing here)and changing everything carefully spring is like a perhaps Hand in a window (carefully to and fro moving New and Old things,while people stare carefully moving a perhaps fraction of flower here placing an inch of air there)and without breaking anything. ↗

— E.E. Cummings

#change

You yourself rekindle the flare, of hatred, anger and despair. ↗

— Eric Rada

#anger

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army. ↗

— John Ashbery

#confuse #i #i think #improve #life

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge. ↗

— Brooks Atkinson

#college education #education #five #knowledge #learn

The world is as it used to be: “All nations striving strong to make Red war yet redder. Mad as hatters They do no more for Christés sake Than you who are helpless in such matters. “That this is not the judgment-hour For some of them’s a blessed thing, For if it were they’d have to scour Hell’s floor for so much threatening.... “Ha, ha. It will be warmer when I blow the trumpet (if indeed I ever do; for you are men, And rest eternal sorely need). ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#men

Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life. ↗

— John Betjeman

#like #luxury #many #me #modern

For me, prose walks, poetry dances. ↗

— James Broughton

#me #poetry #prose #walks

Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something. ↗

— Amy Clampitt

#being mad #inclined #inspired #mad #poetry

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence. ↗

— Norman O. Brown

#common #common sense #freedom #liberties #normal

People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated. ↗

— Lucille Clifton

#celebrated #mistake #more #people #poetry