Abstraction Quote by Christian Wiman

Mandelstam is the sort of poet who comes along very, very rarely. Even the two Russian poets whose work is often linked with his…

— Christian Wiman

I'm drawn to this range, that's for sure, but I suppose the thing that most appeals to me about Mandelstam is the sense you…

— Christian Wiman

I can't think offhand of any American poets who have Mandelstam's urgency, but it's a different country and a different time, and I don't…

— Christian Wiman

Mandelstam was an artistic genius, the sort that any century produces only a handful of.

— Christian Wiman

Each man has his own batch of poems.

— Saul Bellow

For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in…

— John Drinkwater

I could start with Mandelstam, who was a huge influence on my early writing.

— Helen Dunmore

There's a great freedom of forms and intonations in Luigi Fontanella's poetry. He doesn't take a strong formal stand; his poetry entertains moments of…

— Giovanni Raboni

If one wants to go on living, one must evolve. Before, when we composed, we would start by a series of music themes. Once…

— Mitch Leigh

Most poetry is the utterance of a man in some state of passion, love, joy, grief, rage, etc., and no doubt this is as…

— W. H. Auden

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Back then, I was an acoustically-oriented artist. Honestly, 'Poetry Man' wouldn't have been my first choice.

— Phoebe Snow