Tuesday, April 23, 2013

EXISTENCE (2)

A poem only comes into existence when it is being read. But each time it is read it begins a new life. And in a different way.

Cees Buddingh’
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The poem is ready before it has come into existence; it's just that the author doesn't know his tekst yet.

Gottfriend Benn
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013

TRAVEL (11)

I was born to travel and write verse.

Théophile Gautier



Writing while traveling is far more important to me than traveling while writing.

Albert Hagenaars



Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.

William Shakespeare



Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.

Wystan Hugh Auden



Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson



Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.

Ralph Waldo Emerson



I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad—and to travel for it too!

William Shakespeare



My soul travels on the smell of perfume like the souls of other men on music.

Charles Baudelaire



To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

Robert Louis Stevenson



Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore.

Vita Sackville-West



What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.

George Gordon Noel Byron



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CLARITY

I have not and never did have any motive of poetry
But to achieve clarity.

George Oppen (1908 - 1984)



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FORM

Form is never more than an expression of content.

Charles Olson



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SLANG

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 - 1936)


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TRUTH (3)

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

June Jordan



Poets lie the truth.

Bertus Aafjes



Poetry is closer to vital truth than history is.

Plato



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MUSIC (2)

The poet is a sculptor who paints music.

Clem Schouwenaars



A man should hear a little music, read some poetry, and see a fine picture each day of his life, in order to prevent that worldly worries obliterate the sense of beauty which God has implanted in the human soul.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



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