“We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.”
Source: The French Lieutenant's Woman
Ce n'est pas avec des idées qu'on fait des vers, c'est avec des mots.
A remark reported in Psychologie de l'art (1927) by Henri Delacroix, p. 93; as translated in Literary Impressionism (1973), Maria Elisabeth Kronegger, p. 77.
Observations
Ce n'est pas avec des idées qu'on fait des vers, c'est avec des mots.
Observations
“We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.”
Source: The French Lieutenant's Woman
“Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?”
“Is It Possible to Write a Poem?”
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “Is It Possible to Write a Poem”
“We are all writing God's poem.”
As quoted by Erica Jong, in "Into the lion's den" in The Guardian (26 October 2000) http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2000/oct/26/features11.g2
“I prefer the absurdity of writing poems
to the absurdity of not writing poems.”
Source: Nothing Twice: Selected Poems
“…whether they write poems or don’t write poems, poets are best.”
“Recent Poetry”, p. 227
Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)
Reported in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895) by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 388.
“But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.”
“Is It Possible to Write a Poem?,” p. 111
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “Is It Possible to Write a Poem”
“Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas.”