“Midway between the too soiled ground and the too-sublime vaults, at the level of the air, entering the skin of the role,… — Michel Leiris Copy Share Image
“With women poets we look at or into, but not up at, sacred things; we unlearn submission.” — Alicia Ostriker Copy Share Image
Signs of a maddening system of writing and counting that calibrates the values of something the poet does not yet know. Praxis… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“And the beautiful lady, still with her beautiful wasp’s waist, the very beautiful lady whose charms buzz around our childish dreams, will… — Michel Leiris Copy Share Image
“To Wallace Stevens' post-Nietzschean formula 'God and the imagination are one,' these women poets would add a crucial third element: God and… — Alicia Ostriker Copy Share Image
“The genuine artist, Harris is saying, finds reality in a point of identity between subject and object, a point at which the… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
One of the things I've always thought is that if I were to write a poetics, it would have to do with… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
The formal stuff feels old and windy. Not to say you shouldn't know prosody. But it's a wonderful time for exploratory poetics.… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“I make work that is many things at once: poems that are prose, that are pictures, that are poem and picture. Actions… — Jen Besemer Copy Share Image
“at man’s height the mouth utters its cries, tosses forth its oracles, gives vent to its puns. To allow words to come… — Michel Leiris Copy Share Image
“The novel has accompanied man uninterruptedly and faithfully since the beginning of the Modern Era. It was then that the "passion to… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The sonnet, a lyrical poem, the beauty and magic... convey with our hearts the truth of the universe in a single moment… — R.M. Engelhardt Copy Share Image
“I may want to sleep with Miss America, but I have no wish to hear her talk about herself and her family.” — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
Let me just say that the politics that I have are never the politics of poetics. I am not interested in politics.… — Lucie Brock-Broido Copy Share Image
Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with… — Quintus Ennius Copy Share Image
Aristotle wrote the 'Poetics' 2,400 years ago. It's really an instruction manual for aspiring filmmakers. It's as valid today as it was then. — Nicholas Jarecki Copy Share Image
“Neuere Poeten tun viel Wasser in die Tinte. (More recent poets put a lot of water in the ink.) -- Goethe: Aus… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Some one said: "The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did." Precisley, and they… — T.S Eliot Copy Share Image
“the next time you hear someone in a workshop remarking on how good a particular free-verse line or passage sounds, scan it.… — Annie Finch Copy Share Image
So yes, I'm trying to think about the connections between politics and poetry. There's an awful lot you could say here.Poetics is… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
“The appropriation of the creativity-procreativity metaphor by women is a conscious challenge to traditional poetics and beyond that to traditional metaphysics, for… — Alicia Ostriker Copy Share Image
“Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need for… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“There is no single thing... that is so cut and dried that one cannot attend to its secret whisper which says 'I… — Roger Cardinal Copy Share Image
“I am alive to a usual objection to what is clearly part of my programme for the metier of poetry. The objection… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
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