Poetry Quote by Kim Hyesoon Download Open image “In poetry, rhythm is a priority above everything else.” — Kim Hyesoon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry Priorities Rhythm
The sense of flowing, which is so crucial to song, is also crucial to poetry. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
One of the things that distinguishes poetry from ordinary speech is that in a very few number of words, poetry captures some kind of… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“The rhythm," said Goethe, "is an unconscious result of the poetic mood. If one should stop to consider it mechanically, when about to write… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Poetry requires deliberate movement in its direction, a filament of faith in its persistence, receptivity to its fundamental worthwhileness. Within its unanesthetized heart there… — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
Time and rhythm are the most important elements in music. If both aren't well conceived, organized, and executed, no amount of notes will make… — Anthony Davis Copy Share Image
And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious. — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
Mother is a synonym for abandonment and death. Comparing this synonym to water, it is like poured-out water. I call it mother, the identity… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
Alienation between the content and form happens frequently in my poems because I obstinately carry on dismantling my body, an act you can also… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
Once, I compared poetry to mothers in my book called To Write as a Woman, because my mother is someone who captures me in… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
Korean feminism is on the brink of death. Korea has a less clear boundary between popular literature and serious literature than in other countries.… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
We have certain rules for traditional lyric poetry in Korea. I twist my body, confused by what to say and how to act, facing… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
Men think women should do trivial things on the margins. They think women should be merely a seasoning for a dish. I feel anger… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
In Korea, a woman must first obey her father, then her husband when she becomes an ajuma, and finally obey her son as a… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
Women are foils to men in South Korea. It is hard for women to take a lead role even in NGOs for political resistance.… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
When I became a poet, the Korean literary world expected women poets to sing passively of love. Naturally, this was not written anywhere, but… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
South Korea is one of the worst countries when it comes to opportunity for women in social activities and employment. To my disgust, in… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
The grotesque in my poems is the motion I use to put myself and the grotesque world together. So the miserable images I use… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine. — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my… — Alexandria Clarke Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
