#poetry

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers. ↗

— Horace

#drinkers #live #long #please #poems

Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#different #different way #each #feed #found

The will of life and death, never share the same motivation... we all know that love is the ultimate motive to die for... but let’s not kid ourselves... ...we all know the ultimate motive to rise back from the dead is vengeance. ↗

— Non Nomen

#religion #spirituality #the-unwords #death

I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#generation #had #her #i #last

All war is based in deception (cfr. Sun Tzu, “The Art of War”). Definition of deception: “The practice of deliberately making somebody believe things that are not true. An act, a trick or device entended to deceive somebody”. Thus, all war is based in metaphor. All war necessarily perfects itself in poetry. Poetry (since indefinable) is the sense of seduction. Therefore, all war is the storytelling of seduction, and seduction is the nature of war. ↗

— Pola Oloixarac

#poetry #seduction #war #art

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. ↗

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#anything #autobiography #else #footnote #his

We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other. ↗

— Naomi Klein

#brands #communities #each #getting #looking

What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing. ↗

— Fernand Leger

#anything #art #beautiful #does #dramatic

I knew what book we had to write, it was clear in my head; it was journals and poetry. So I passed on their offer. I told my agent this is our vision, and no one's done it this way. ↗

— Kenny Loggins

#book #clear #done #had #head

Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#dreams