Poetry Is Quotes - Page 9

• My ethics, my sense of morality, my work ethic, my sense of compassion for suffering humanity, all of that comes directly out of the practice of poetry, as does my Buddhist practice. Poetry is a very important element in the history of Buddhism in general and in Zen in particular. It was really Zen that motivated me to change the way I perceive the world.

  Sam Hamill

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Compassion

  Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

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• When these idiot rightwingers start complaining about poetry being political, I'm fond of reciting Sappho to them, who excluded men from her world. Why does she exclude them? Mostly because of their warmongering.

  Sam Hamill

  Men, Political, Doe

  Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

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• Poetry is a language for when you can't quite write prose about something, you can't quite say it, but if you do a poem, it kind of gets to the point.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Writing, Language, Kind

  "Earth Protector: An Interview with Sakyong Mipham (complete interview)". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. July 30, 2015.

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• She [Carol Parsinan] somehow read my poems and came back to me and convinced me that I could be a poet, that I had the passion and the enthusiasm and the creativity to become a poet, but that what I was writing was not poetry because I was just expressing my feelings and I wasn't try to make anything.

  Edward Hirsch

  Passion, Writing, Creativity

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Now, I do say, "It's possible. You might be the first. I'm not saying it's impossible, but the odds are very much against you." All great poets have been great readers and the way to learn your craft in poetry is by reading other poetry and by letting it guide you.

  Edward Hirsch

  Reading, Odds, Crafts

  Source: bigthink.com

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• And a lot of poetry is putting yourself back into the state of wonder that you have before things when you're a child. It's not only a joyous wonder, it's sometimes a grief stricken wonder.

  Edward Hirsch

  Children, Grief, Sometimes

  "A Poet Is Born". Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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• I have the idea that lyric poetry is a poetry that's driven by a sense of the presence of death. That there's something unbearable about the fact that we're going to die and that we can't stand it and I think you find that out in childhood and you don't really - at least I found it out in childhood and I found it hard to get over.

  Edward Hirsch

  Thinking, Lyric Poetry, Ideas

  "A Poet Is Born". Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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• Now, the process of writing poetry is very messy. Not systematic, never quite the same

  Edward Hirsch

  Writing, Systematic, Never Quit

  "Embracing the Mess of Poetry". Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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• I would say there are different kinds of poems. There are things that poets in the history of poetry hit upon when they're very young that can never be outdone and it's a remarkable, strange experience when you think of say Arthur Rimbaud who write poetry between the ages of 17 and 21 whose career was over by the time he was 22.

  Edward Hirsch

  Writing, Thinking, Careers

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. February 4, 2010.

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• The mysterious thing about writing poetry is that when you're - when things are going poorly, when you're not thinking well, even making two sentences together is extremely hard and I just can't make the connections.

  Edward Hirsch

  Writing, Thinking, Mysterious Things

  Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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• I would be happier if people who went through MFA programs also were already, by then, deeply committed readers of poetry because we need readers of poetry as much as writers of poetry.

  Edward Hirsch

  People, Would Be, Needs

  "Do MFA Programs Hurt Poetry?". Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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• First of all I think that poetry is very noble and I always have with me the sense of the nobility of poetry.

  Edward Hirsch

  Thinking, Noble, Firsts

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The idea of how to read a poem is based on the idea that poetry needs you as a reader. That the experience of poetry, the meaning in poetry is a kind of circuit that takes place between a poet, a poem and a reader and that meaning doesn't exist or in here in poems alone.

  Edward Hirsch

  Ideas, Needs, Kind

  "How to Read a Poem". Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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• "Confessional poetry" is another one of those labels. It goes in and out of fashion.

  Matthea Harvey

  Fashion, Labels

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• It is true that I didn't write any poetry between 1995 and 2011. The reason for this was probably because I had stayed away from fiction for so long and couldn't tear myself away from it.

  Yuriy Tarnawsky

  Writing, Long, Tears

  "No Tall Tales". Interview with David Moscovich, www.raintaxi.com. 2012.

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• I think I view myself primarily as a fiction writer. Poetry is more of a "hobby," a time of rest from the hard work of writing fiction.

  Yuriy Tarnawsky

  Hard Work, Writing, Thinking

  "No Tall Tales: An Interview With Yuriy Tarnawsky". Interview With David Moscovich, www.raintaxi.com. 2012.

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• I started writing poetry because language was how I understood the world. It was a paradigm that made everything matter and in forms that were safe to hold what I felt.

  Grace Cavalieri

  Writing, World, Safe

  "Four Energetic Women Behind America's Literary Arts". Interview with Daniela Gioseffi, www.raintaxi.com. 2012.

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• Homosexuals are delicate and bad poetry is delicate and [Allen] Ginsberg turned the tables by making homosexual poetry strong poetry, almost manly poetry; but in the long run, the homo will remain the homo and not the poet.

  Charles Bukowski

  Running, Strong, Long

  Source: bukowski.net

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• That boom town [Abu Dhabi] proved to be the reef against which my family crashed, the story of many who seek the promised land, and my poetry is a versification of that personal history. History is all I have.

  Andre Naffis-Sahely

  Land, Stories, Towns

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm of the opinion that poetry is always political, and cannot help but be so, regardless of the poet's intent, given that refusing to deal in politics is in itself a political act.

  Andre Naffis-Sahely

  Political, Helping, Opinion

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• As poetry is the highest speech of man, it can not only accept and contain, but in the end express best everything in the world, or in himself, that he discovers. It will absorb and transmute, as it always has done, and glorify, all that we can know. This has always been, and always will be, poetry's office.

  Conrad Aiken

  Men, Office, Done

  "Conrad Aiken, The Art of Poetry No. 9". Interview with Robert Hunter Wilbur in September 1963, "The Paris Review", www.theparisreview.org. Winter - Spring 1968.

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• Writing poetry is a process of discovery...you can smell the poem before you see it....Like some animal.

  Denise Levertov

  Writing, Animal, Discovery

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• Poetry is one of the most fugitive arts: it can be assigned to memory, taken and hidden in the mind, smuggled into smoky cabin back rooms, recited there and then conveyed only by speech to another person. It is therefore the most likely to survive colonization.

  Eavan Boland

  Art, Memories, Taken

  Eavan Boland (2008). “Eavan Boland: A Critical Companion : Poetry, Prose, Interviews, Reviews and Criticism”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• I suppose there's something to be said for the sheer reinforcement of our beliefs, but really I think poetry is more useful as disenchantment than enchantment.

  Robert Hass

  Thinking, Reinforcement, Enchantment

  Interview with Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April, 1997.

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• I love communicating with people, and sometimes language is not enough. I think that's what poetry is, where you can mess with language and get through to things that can't be described or communicated through regular language or scientific processes.

  Justin Adams

  Thinking, People, Language

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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