“A Verse Chronicle”, pp. 157–158
Poetry and the Age (1953)
Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) poet, critic, novelist, essayist
precedes by twelve years Truman Capote’s putdown of Jack Kerouac: “That isn’t writing at all, it’s typing.”; “from Verse Chronicle”, p. 137
Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)
Robert Pinsky (1940) American poet, editor, literary critic, academic.
What is a good book about short line in ballad metre? The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson.
The Art of Poetry - interview 1995 with Downing & Kunitz
“Poetry is like time travel, and poems take us to the heart of the matter”
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (1947) second wife of Prince Charles
About poems that moves her to tears <br class="br"> First World War centenary: the war poem that moves the Duchess of Cornwall to tears The Daily Telegraph 28 June 2014 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-one/10932405/First-World-War-centenary-the-war-poem-that-moves-the-Duchess-of-Cornwall-to-tears.html#disqus_thread
Robert Pinsky (1940) American poet, editor, literary critic, academic.
Interview at Skidmore College Aug 1995,published 'Paris Review' no 144 Fall 1997
The Art of Poetry - interview 1995 with Downing & Kunitz
“The line is a way of thinking in poetry, by poetry.. it paces the poem.”
Edward Hirsch (1950)
'Five points' vol 4 no 2 Georgia State University Press Winter 2000
Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980) poet and political activist
Source: The Life of Poetry (1949), p. 31
Context: The meanings of poetry take their growth through the interaction of the images and the music of the poem. The music is not the rhythm, which is a representation of life, alone. The music involves the interplay of the sounds of words, the length of the sequences, the keeping and breaking of rhythms, and the repetition and variation of syllables unrhymed and rhymed. It also involves the play of ideas and images.
Ryōkan (1758–1831) Japanese Buddhist monk
Variant translation:<br>Who says my poems are poems?<br>My poems are not poems.<br>After you know my poems are not poems,<br>Then we can begin to discuss poetry! <br class="br"> "Zen Poetics of Ryokan" in Simply Haiku: A Quarterly Journal of Japanese Short Form Poetry (Summer 2006) http://www.hermitary.com/articles/ryokan_poetics.html <br class="br">Dewdrops on a Lotus Leaf : Zen Poems of Ryokan (1993)
“I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals.”
Philip Larkin (1922–1985) English poet, novelist, jazz critic and librarian
Interview in The Review, published by Ian Hamilton (1972)
“To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie—
True Poems flee”
Emily Dickinson book The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
