Casts Quote by Dean Young Download Open image “A poem should be odd as a small cast-iron platypus.” — Dean Young ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Casts Iron Odd Platypus Poetry Should
I wouldn't be very happy if a poet read what I had written and said, 'What a peculiar thing to say about this work… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
It hardly seems worthwhile to point out the shortsightedness of those practitioners who would have us believe that the form of the poem is… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
Almost any poem has to be read twice, first for strangeness, second for clarity. — Peter J. Daniels Copy Share Image
“ Ars Poetica A poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit, Dumb As old medallions to the thumb, Silent as the… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
A poem doesn’t come out and tell you what it has to say. It circles back on itself, eating its own tail and making… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
“Poetry is an old wise serpent which only occasionally comes out to catch the sun (and scare people).” — Leila Samarrai Copy Share Image
Poetry is a fossil rock-print of a fin and a wing, with an illegible oath between. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
There are no ordinary feelings. Just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked over cans of paint. — Dean Young Copy Share Image
I don't believe in writer's block, writing well is very easy; it's writing horribly, the horrible work necessary to do to get to writing… — Dean Young Copy Share Image
“You bend the nail But keep hammering because Hammering makes the world” — Dean Young Copy Share Image
I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, but now I want a Russian novel, a 50-page description of you sleeping. — Dean Young Copy Share Image
“Just because we have birds inside is, we don't have to be cages. -from Instant Recognition between Strangers” — Dean Young Copy Share Image
“Often beauty is disguised by appearance just as music can be by sound, the dreaming wish by the waking wish until there's this terrible… — Dean Young Copy Share Image
Here is a semi-transparent pebble I picked up on the way to my EKG. Probably worthless but it is my heart so take it. — Dean Young Copy Share Image
Poets are excellent students of blizzards and salt and broken statuary, but they are always elsewhere for the test. Any intention in the writing… — Dean Young Copy Share Image
Poetry is not efficient. If you want to learn how to cook a lobster, it’s probably best not to look to poetry. But if… — Dean Young Copy Share Image
“Kissing a rose is a dumb thing to do not just from the rose's point of view. But it's a start like driving off… — Dean Young Copy Share Image
“When you look ito the still, deep water, you can feel it looking back, trying to come up with the proper punishment. Fucking water,… — Dean Young Copy Share Image
Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
Politics only makes the difficult challenge of marriage even harder, with the demands of the job and the public spotlight it casts on a… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
I've done so many other projects where you're in a room with a reader and you're acting your lines out: 'We have to get… — Jim Cummings Copy Share Image
The God in whose hands are all our days and ways, did cast into my hand one day a book of Martin Luthers; it… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
I was focused on The Hunger Games movie with my director, with the studio, and with the cast and crew. We all just focused… — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
All my life I've been involved with racial politics. I was a Freedom Rider in the South. I was the author of books on… — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
God hath work to do in this world; and to desert it because of its difficulties and entanglements, is to cast off His authority.… — John Owen Copy Share Image
All progress in literary style lies in the heroic resolve to cast aside accretions and exuberances, all the conventions of a past age that… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
I think that people who stand up for what they believe in, no matter how unpopular, should be celebrated, not cast aside. — Craig Lancaster Copy Share Image
Unless a man gives himself entirely to the Cross, in a spirit of humility and self-abasement; unless he casts himself down to be trampled… — Mark the Evangelist Copy Share Image
