Books Quote by Michael Richardson

We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a certain position…

— Albert Camus

Poetry is simply literature reduced to the essence of its active principle. It is purged of idols of every kind, of realistic illusions, of…

— Paul Valery

Poetry might be more about the eternal verities, the essence of the human soul, and - although it's reductive to say so - fiction…

— Chad Harbach

Surrealism is not a school of poetry but a movement of liberation... A way of rediscovering the language of innocence, a renewal of the…

— Octavio Paz

“They are good evidence to prove that poems which seem often to be constructed of arbitrary surreal symbols are really impassioned reorganizations of relevant…

— Sylvia Plath

“Poetry is a way of coming to know the realness of things; fiction is a way of coming to know the world of relationships;…

— Kelly Cherry

poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you will, of…

— Annie Dillard

Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its realization to…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Surrealism! What is Surrealism? In my opinion, it is above all a reawakening of the poetic idea in art, the reintroduction of the subject…

— Paul Delvaux

“Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of messages.”

— Vanessa M. Chattman

"Poetry" refers to the quite challenging and quite resistant sets of words put together to be admired and interpreted by people who are already…

— Stephen Burt

“Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of expression and messages. ”

— Vanessa M. Chattman