Contrast Quote by Elaine Equi Download Open image “In order for poetry to exist there has to be not-poetry to contrast it with.” — Elaine Equi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contrast Exist Exist Poetry Order Order Poetry Poetry Poetry Contrast Poetry Exist
There can be no society without poetry, but society can never be realized as poetry, it is never poetic. Sometimes the two terms seek… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have. — John Masefield Copy Share Image
Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement. — Samuel Prout Copy Share Image
What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I can appreciate the idea that with e-books more people would publish, the work would be easier to disseminate, and that it could even… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
I can never plan out what direction my poems will take in terms of either form or content. I wish I could but it… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
“Literary Lipsticks by Elaine Equi The Best American Poetry Red Wheelbarrow I Have Eaten the Plums Poppies in October Pink Christmas Red Weather A… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
Sometimes you get lit students that know a lot about the canon but virtually nothing about contemporary poetry and vice versa. I like to… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
I like being married to another writer. You get to trade ideas. You get to talk shop. You get to complain. You get to… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
In the past things were either in your head (subjective, imaginary, fantasy) or else they were part of the outside world - cold, hard,… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
I've always liked language and been a big reader. I always loved books as objects. My favorite time of year as a child was… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
I tend to like poems that are short as well as funny. I love Joe Brainard and Aram Saroyan. And I think their sense… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
I never liked the philosophy that you can have everything and be everything and that something is wrong if you don't want that. I'm… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
In a machine, every part has a function. In a poem, every word needs to be there. — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film - you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you live these… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
The approach of intellect or noesis will forever be an effete and limited sort of thing by contrast with the vigor and color of… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white... to highlight that contrast. — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
Emotional Literacy means being able to recognise what you are feeling, so that it doesn't interfere with thinking. It becomes another dimension to draw… — Susie Orbach Copy Share Image
I believe in the people of our state and making sure the voices of the people of our state are heard in Washington. And… — Cal Cunningham Copy Share Image
I have always liked the contrast between being blonde and having dark features. — Rita Ora Copy Share Image
One can hardly appreciate how academia has perverted its highest tasks and "ideals" without pondering long and hard the implications of Jacques Barzun's House… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
There's this one song called 'Final Warning' that I'm really excited about because I love the contrast of my vocal sounding very soothing and… — Skylar Grey Copy Share Image
Trump conducts meetings and actually tries to get something done rather than just have the meeting and rather than just announce a framework and… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
In a way, human beings have never been part of the natural order; we're not biological in the normal sense. Normal biological animals stop… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
On the surface the avant garde as a whole seems united primarily in terms of what they are against: the rejection of social institutions… — C. D. Innes Copy Share Image
One of the most durable successes of the war on poverty was to dramatically reduce the number of elderly poor in America. That's still… — Sasha Abramsky Copy Share Image
