“Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.”
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I'm a Born Liar (2003)
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Federico Fellini 36
Italian filmmaker 1920–1993Related quotes
“We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.”
“Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.”
Quote in his letter tot Theo, from The Hague, Sunday, 18 March 1883; as cited in The Complete Letters of Vincent Van Gogh, Vol. 2 (1958) New York Graphic Society, p. 12
1880s, 1883
R. S. Thomas : Priest and Poet, BBC TV (2 April 1972)
Context: Any form of orthodoxy is just not part of a poet's province … A poet must be able to claim … freedom to follow the vision of poetry, the imaginative vision of poetry … And in any case, poetry is religion, religion is poetry. The message of the New Testament is poetry. Christ was a poet, the New Testament is metaphor, the Resurrection is a metaphor; and I feel perfectly within my rights in approaching my whole vocation as priest and preacher as one who is to present poetry; and when I preach poetry I am preaching Christianity, and when one discusses Christianity one is discussing poetry in its imaginative aspects. … My work as a poet has to deal with the presentation of imaginative truth.
English translation originally from "Subramaniya Bharathi" at Tamilnation.org, also quoted in "Colliding worlds of tradition and revolution" in The Hindu (13 December 2009) http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-sundaymagazine/colliding-worlds-of-tradition-and-revolution/article662079.ece
“All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.”
“The priority for the poet must be his poetry, the poetry must determine his agenda and deadlines”
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