Poem Quote by Paul Fry Download Open image “I myself always want to talk about "poetry," not "the poem."” — Paul Fry ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poem Poetry Poetry Poem Talk Poetry Want Want Talk
Poetry is so close to music, not just in cadence and sound but in silences. That's why, to me, I can't talk about prose… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry. — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
I love that people want to know about poetry. It's one of the ways of keeping alive. — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
The mantra of the new historicists was "we have betrayed ourselves." Since their emergence, there have been more or less interesting paradigm shifts having… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
The rhetoric of theory is always in a bind. It pronounces ideas and denounces failures to accept or grasp them while insisting that there… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
I beg my reader to consider the "evidence" I provide for my case and perhaps feel persuaded as a result. Beyond that I make… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
I make a distinction between theory and methodology, the latter being the practical deployment of a premise. Theory on the contrary may well be… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
Criticism is concerned with evaluation. There may be evaluative principles implicit in this or that form of theory, but theory in and of itself… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
Both the 18th and the early 20th centuries, however, feature brilliant attacks on originality, and it's no doubt one of the hallmarks of romanticism… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
I'm not only a romanticist but a romantic myself. I take it for granted the originality matters. — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
Although I don't disagree that utterances express desires and try to make complexities precise, I actually don't think at all that any of our… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
The basic change in the landscape since my salad days started with the defensive rediscovery of history and politics by all the theoretically-oriented academics… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
I don't think theory adds to criticism. (Methodology does, for better or worse.) Theory's function is to make criticism self-conscious, maybe even a little… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
Authors we are in danger of accepting as gospel, whereas founders of discursivity provide permeable ideas that we can elaborate upon in a tradition… — Paul Fry 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
“Whatever you want," he said. "Will you please come here now?" I slipped a piece of protective tissue over my drawing and flipped the… — Melissa Jensen Copy Share Image
“sometimes when everything seems at its worst when all conspires and gnaws and the hours, days, weeks years seem wasted – stretched there upon… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“The name does not deserve the poem, but the poem deserves the name.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Memory revises me. Even now a letter comes from a place I don’t know, from someone with my name and postmarked years ago, while… — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
“Sentinels of trees breathe life into bodies of earthly flesh As their mighty arms reach to the stars we join in their quest for… — Ramon Ravenswood Copy Share Image
“I cannot go to school today" Said little Peggy Ann McKay. "I have the measles and the mumps, A gash, a rash and purple… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
“Good God, 'the elusive thing'. She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
A day which passed without a poem from my pen I considered lost and misused. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
“The gift of words, the source of enjoyment, the source of delight that comes within and the unfading beauty and energy of words.” — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
“Memories of past. Heartaches of old. Courage of brass. Lessons of gold.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“To write a poem...to paint an image on canvass from the contemplation of nature and life...is to be present again in this world more… — Deeper sense of presence Isabella koldras Copy Share Image
