Around Quote by Alissa Quart

A subtle-witted man is like an arrow, which, rending little surface, enters deeply, but they whose minds are dull resemble stones dashing with clumsy…

— Magha

The ear writes my poems, not the mind.

— Stanley Kunitz

Poesy must not be drawn by the ears: it must be gently led, or rather, it must lead, which was partly the cause that…

— Philip Sidney

The talent of a true writer and poet is in the ear.

— Bryant H. McGill

Mastery in poetry consists largely in the instinct for not ruining or smothering or tinkering with moments of vision.

— Edmund Blunden

The mind wraps itself around a poem. It is almost sensual, particularly if you work on a computer. You can turn the poem round…

— Marge Piercy

Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis.

— Andrea Dworkin

Even though poetry was written for the 'minds ear' as well as the physical ear, the minds ear can be trained only by the…

— Yvor Winters

There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.

— David Whyte

Beauty makes one lose one's head. Poetry is born of this decapitation

— Jean Cocteau

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought…

— James Broughton

Poetry, for example, goes so deeply into the space between corporeal affect and deep emotion (even primal in some cases) that, as Emily Dickinson…

— Lidia Yuknavitch