“It takes a spasm of love to write a poem.”
Erica Jong (1942) Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
“I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love.”
Starting from Paumanok, 6
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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John Knox (1514–1572) Scottish clergyman, writer and historian
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Context: None have I corrupted. None have I defrauded. Merchandise have I not made — to God's glory I write — of the glorious Evangel of Jesus Christ; but, according to the measure of the grace granted unto me, I have divided the Sermon of Truth in just parts, beating down the rebellion of the proud against God, and raising up the consciences troubled with the knowledge of their sins, by declaring Jesus Christ, the strength of His Death, and the mighty operation of His Resurrection, in the hearts of the Faithful. Of this, I say, I have a testimony this day in my conscience, before God, however the world rage.
Frank O'Hara (1926–1966) American poet, art critic and writer
Personism: A Manifesto, from The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara (1972).
“I was going to write a poem, I was stifling, fed up with old things”
Ataol Behramoğlu (1942) Turkish writer
"How Awful When Poetry Ages As It Is Read"
I've Learned Some Things (2008)
Context: Gulls into the water, women proudly into the bazaars
I was going to write a poem, I was stifling, fed up with old things
Eat, my mother says, but they're all things I've grown accustomed to, in the end.
Like Camus and — I don’t know — people like that, I'm cracking up
Everything will begin when it untangles itself from your hair