Yvor Winters Quotes

• Far out of sight forever stands the sea,
  Bounding the land with pale tranquillity.

  Yvor Winters

  Sight, Sea, Land

  Yvor Winters (1978). “The collected poems of Yvor Winters”, Swallow Pr

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• And one rose in a tent of sea and gave
  A darkening shudder; water fell away;
  The whale stood shining, and then sank in spray.

  Yvor Winters

  Whales, Sea, Water

  Yvor Winters (1978). “The collected poems of Yvor Winters”, Swallow Pr

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• The rain of matter upon sense
  Destroys me momently. The score:
  There comes what will come.

  Yvor Winters

  Rain, Thoughtful, Thinking

  Yvor Winters (1960). “Collected poems”

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• The land is numb. It stands beneath the feet, and one may come Walking securely, till the sea extends Its limber margin, and precision ends.

  Yvor Winters

  Sea, Land, Feet

  Yvor Winters (1978). “The collected poems of Yvor Winters”, Swallow Pr

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• Gascoigne, Ben Jonson, Greville, Raleigh, Donne,
  Poets who wrote great poems, one by one,
  And spaced by many years, each line an act
  Through which few labor, which no men retract.
  This passion is the scholar's heritage

  Yvor Winters

  Passion, Men, Years

  Yvor Winters (1963). “Collected Poems”

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• The passion to condense from book to book
  Unbroken wisdom in a single look,
  Though we know well that when this fix the head,
  The mind's immortal, but the man is dead.

  Yvor Winters

  Wisdom, Book, Passion

  Yvor Winters (1978). “The collected poems of Yvor Winters”, Swallow Pr

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• The poet's first job of work is to put bread on the table.

  Yvor Winters

  Jobs, Poetry, Tables

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• What I desire of a poem is a clear understanding of motive, and a just evaluation of feeling A poem in the first place should offer us a new perception..bringing into being a new experience Verse is more valuable than prose for its rhythms are faster and more highly organised and lead to greater compexity.

  Yvor Winters

  New Experiences, Feelings, Understanding

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• Even though poetry was written for the 'minds ear' as well as the physical ear, the minds ear can be trained only by the other ... which comes back to reading poetry aloud.

  Yvor Winters

  Reading, Mind, Ears

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• Professors of literature, who for the most part are genteel but mediocre men, can make but a poor defense of their profession, and the professors of science, who are frequently men of great intelligence but of limited interests and education

  Yvor Winters

  Book, Men, Defense

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• Reptilian green the wrinkled throat,
  Green as a bough of yew the beard;
  He bent his head, and so I smote

  Yvor Winters

  Yew, Green, Beard

  Yvor Winters (1960). “Collected poems”

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• By practice and conviction formed, With ancient stubbornness ingrained, Although her body clung and swarmed, My own identity remained.

  Yvor Winters

  Practice, Identity, Body

  Yvor Winters (1978). “The collected poems of Yvor Winters”, Swallow Pr

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