Michael Schmidt (poet) (1947) American poet
Lives of the Poets, Phoenix, 1988
“A poem is a living organism.”
The Poet's Poetic Responsibility (2012)
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“All the poems of our lives are not yet made.”
Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980) poet and political activist
Source: The Life of Poetry (1949), p. 214
“Human life can be lived like a poem.”
Lin Yutang book The Importance of Living
Source: The Importance of Living (1937), p. 32
“The poetic image is not a static thing. It lives in time, as does the poem.”
Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980) poet and political activist
Source: The Life of Poetry (1949), p. 32
Context: The poetic image is not a static thing. It lives in time, as does the poem. Unless it is the first image of the poem, it has already been prepared for by other images; and it prepares us for further images and rhythms to come. Even if it is the first image of the poem, the establishment of the rhythm prepares us — musically — for the music of the image. And if its first word begins the poem, it has the role of putting into motion all the course of images and music of the entire work, with nothing to refer to, except perhaps a title.
“An unromantic poem I mean to make
Of one who only lives for duty's sake.”
Guldstad
Love's Comedy (1862)
Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980) poet and political activist
Source: The Life of Poetry (1949), p. 181
Context: The creation of a poem, or mathematical creation, involves so much sense of arrival, so much selection, so much of the desire that makes choice — even though one or more of these may operate in the unconscious or partly conscious work-periods before the actual work is achieved — that the questions raised are very pertinent.... The poet chooses and selects and has that sense of arrival as the poem ends; he is expressing what it feels like to arrive at his meanings. If he has expressed that well, his reader will arrive at his meanings. The degree of appropriateness of expression depends on the preparing. By preparing I mean allowing the reader to feel the interdependences, the relations, within the poem.
These inter-dependences may be proved, if you will allow the term, in one or more ways: the music by which the syllables resolve may lead to a new theme, as in a verbal music, or to a climax, a key-relationship which makes — for the moment — an equilibrium; the images may have established their own progression in such a way that they serve to mark the poem’s development; the tensions and attractions between the poem’s meanings may mark its growth, as they must if the poem is to achieve its form.
A poem is an imaginary work, living in time, indicated in language. It is and it expresses; it allows us to express.
Viktor Schauberger (1885–1958) austrian philosopher and inventor
Alick Bartholomew: The Schauberger Keys
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)
John O'Donohue (1956–2008) Irish writer, priest and philosopher