Quotes Tagged With :poetics

Individuals often turn to poetry, not only to glean strength and perspective from the words of others,....

the next time you hear someone in a workshop remarking on how good a particular free-verse line or passage....

I used to be a poet.My words were traded in marketplaces like pieces of gold.Merchants bought my verses....

Flashlight beams danced crazily

Poets claim that we recapture for a moment the self that we were long ago when we enter some house or....

Added to the shock of the routine violation of their bodies was the trauma of having to relinquish their....

What is a Poet? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility,....

There is no single thing... that is so cut and dried that one cannot attend to its secret whisper which....

Poetry empowers the simplest of lives to confront the most extreme sorrows with courage, and motivates....

Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations....