Ends Quote by Yvor Winters

Even though poetry was written for the 'minds ear' as well as the physical ear, the minds ear can be trained only by the…

— Yvor Winters

By practice and conviction formed, With ancient stubbornness ingrained, Although her body clung and swarmed, My own identity remained.

— Yvor Winters

Far out of sight forever stands the sea, Bounding the land with pale tranquillity.

— Yvor Winters

“And when I found your flesh did not resist, It was the living spirit that I kissed.”

— YVOR WINTERS

The poet's first job of work is to put bread on the table.

— Yvor Winters

And one rose in a tent of sea and gave A darkening shudder; water fell away; The whale stood shining, and then sank in…

— Yvor Winters

Professors of literature, who for the most part are genteel but mediocre men, can make but a poor defense of their profession, and the…

— Yvor Winters

Gascoigne, Ben Jonson, Greville, Raleigh, Donne, Poets who wrote great poems, one by one, And spaced by many years, each line an act Through…

— Yvor Winters

The rain of matter upon sense Destroys me momently. The score: There comes what will come.

— Yvor Winters

The passion to condense from book to book Unbroken wisdom in a single look, Though we know well that when this fix the head,…

— Yvor Winters

“To say that a poet is justified in employing a disintegrating form in order to express a feeling of disintegration, is merely a sophistical…

— Yvor Winters

Far out of sight forever standsthe sea, Bounding the land with pale tranquillity.

— Yvor Winters