Absurdity Quote by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a…

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“He who sees a play that is regular, and answerable to the rules of poetry, is pleased with the comic part, informed by the…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“He showed, in a few words, that it is not sufficient to throw together a few incidents that are to be met with in…

— Voltaire

Anyone who regards poetry as an entertainment, as a 'read,' commits an anthropological crime, in the first place against himself.

— Joseph Brodsky

To evade such temptations is the first duty of the poet. For as the ear is the antechamber to the soul, poetry can adulterate…

— Virginia Woolf

He is a lyric poet . . . aloof from the swirling currents in which many of his colleagues are immersed.

— Samuel Barber

The more rhymethere isin poetry the more dangerof its tricking the writer into something other than the urge in the beginning.

— Carl Sandburg

He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and…

— Salvatore Quasimodo

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

— James Branch Cabell

The charge frequently leveled against poetry - that it is difficult, obscure, hermetic and whatnot - indicates not the state of poetry but, frankly,…

— Joseph Brodsky

A poet can't afford to be aloof. The tools of his trade are the people he bumps up against.

— Rod McKuen