Vernon Scannell: Poem

Vernon Scannell was British boxer and poet. Explore interesting quotes on poem.
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“Some poets are more deeply involved than others in the raw experience which lies behind the poem and for them the act of composition is an act of self exploration with the definite goal of enlightenment rather than the ideally depersonalized construction of a beautiful and autonomous object.”

Vernon Scannell

Not Without Glory, 1976

Beauty

“You can find out far more about a writer from his poems or fiction.. because in his stories or poems, his preoccupations, obsessions, moral standards, the quality of his intelligence, his loves, hates, aspirations, belief and fears.. insist on expression.”

Vernon Scannell

Tiger and the Rose, 1971

Love , Hate , Fear , Intelligence

“The proper act of reading of a poem was not an act of passive submission but one of collaboration with its author.”

Vernon Scannell

Drums of Morning, 1992

Reading

“A word or a phrase or a line is not a poem. A poem is the exploration and shaping of an experience. A real poem demands intelligence, imagination, passion, understanding, experience and not least a knowledge of the craft.”

Vernon Scannell

A Proper Gentleman, 1977

Imagination , Intelligence , Understanding , Knowledge

“Well, here I suppose is my life, or part of it, by which I would wish to be judged… poems which have been written from a sense of compulsion, a real need to explore and articulate experiences which have been important to me.”

Vernon Scannell

Introductory Note

Life , Sense , Parting

“As a writer, I must keep writing, poems can never be forced, the muses will not be raped, so I feel this kind of prose (autobiography), however inadequate, share some of the exploratory features of the poetic use of language.”

Vernon Scannell

Tiger and the Rose, 1971

Feeling