American poetry Quote by David Biespiel Download Open image “American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.” — David Biespiel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare American poetry Inspirational Long Long Live Mess Poetry Poetry is
Americans have been tremendously fortunate in poetry, regarding both the quantity and quality of poetry produced. Unfortunately, it remains in schools and universities; it… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
Poetry resonates differently in each culture; it doesn't in America. — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
Most Americans do not like poetry. We may respect it, but we do not enjoy it. — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now. — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to Advertising copy. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
American poetry has been part of a culture in conflict…We are a people tending toward democracy at the level of hope; at another level,… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
American poetry to me is a sort of relentless, nonstop sermon on human autonomy. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
Because so many poets have chosen a political idiom right now in the US and so many poets have assigned value and inherent knowledge… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
I think I did experience culture shock. When I first arrived in Boston, I was basically told to go home. "Homeboy" is what they… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
A writer's job is not complete without attention to precision. What you're trying to be precise about is your relationship to the observed thing.… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
Literary lineage is part of your autobiography. The authors are the literary base, the image base, the character base that you bring into your… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
I think that as poets, we can get away with stuff because we can ride on the melt of metaphor. We cover a lot… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings. — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
I'm not going to tell people how to write, but we do have a skill set, and the more we put ourselves out into… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
For a long time, I saw writing prose as chewing rocks compared to the velocities of writing poetry. — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
Campion is a poet who knows that what a poet sees is nothing without a mixture of formal prowess and emotional insight. — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
I exaggerate. I oversimplify. I generalize. But there’s no cynicism here. American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry. — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
My revision methods are chipping things away and moving them around and trying to get things right. I'm also open in my own writing… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
There's not a big range in the political poetry of the last year, or not a political range. On the one hand, no poet… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
I'm educating myself more about world poetry. I know a lot about contemporary American poetry, so I felt I needed to learn more about… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
Probably the high-watermark of [Bob] Dylan's career came after he plugged in his guitar ("Judas!" one fan shouted during a concert) and exploded American… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
American poetry is always about defining oneself individually,claiming one's right to be different and often to break taboos. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
“Tell this to ladies: how a hero man Assail a thick and scandalous giant Who casts true shadow in the sun, And die, but… — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
The Astonishment Tapes will now take its place within the growing field of international research about postwar American poetry's important contribution to world literature.… — Peter Gizzi Copy Share Image
“SOME PEOPLE SIMPLY DO NOT EXIST ANYMORE. GET USED TO IT. QUESTION MARK.” — Amy King Copy Share Image
“But something special happened to American poetry in the 19th century when Walt Whitman broke with more traditional English poetics and fashioned an American… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“OMG! I DESIGNED THIS NEW SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM! IT'S CALLED "POETRY" - YOU HAVE TO READ AMY KING'S POEMS TO GET AN INVITE ~” — Amy King Copy Share Image
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