“a poem is a naked person... some people say that I am a poet”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Liner notes http://bobdylan.com/linernotes/bringing.html, Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
“I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.”
Lecture notes of 1858, quoted in The Life and Letters of Faraday (1870) by Bence Jones, Vol. 2, p. 403
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Frank O'Hara (1926–1966) American poet, art critic and writer
Why I Am Not a Painter (l. 24-28) (1976).
Northrop Frye (1912–1991) Canadian literary critic and literary theorist
"Quotes", The Educated Imagination (1963), Talk 3: Giants in Time
Carl Andre (1935) American artist
undated quote about his own poetry; in ' Objects Are What We Aren't' https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/02/26/objects-are-what-we-arent/, by Andy Battaglia; The Parish Review, February 26, 2015
“The poem goes form the poet’s gibberish to
The gibberish of the vulgate and back again.”
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Change
Ronald DeWolf (1934–1991) American critic of Scientology
Interview in Penthouse (June 1983)
Context: I don't think that anyone should think for you. And that's exactly what cults do. All cults, including Scientology, say, "I am your mind, I am your brain. I've done all the work for you, I've laid the path open for you. All you have to do is turn your mind off and walk down the path I have created." Well, I have learned that there's great strength in diversity, that a clamorous discussion or debate is very healthy and should be encouraged. That's why I like our political setup in the United States: simply because you can fight and argue and jump up and down and shout and scream and have all kinds of viewpoints, regardless of how wrongheaded or ridiculous they might be. People here don't have to give up their right to perceive things the way they believe. Scientology and all the other cults are one-dimensional, and we live in a three-dimensional world. Cults are as dangerous as drugs. They commit the highest crime: the rape of the soul.
“If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.”
David Carradine (1936–2009) American actor and martial artist
“I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.”
Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958) Austrian physicist, Nobel prize winner
Ich habe nichts dagegen wenn Sie langsam denken, Herr Doktor, aber ich babe etwas dagegen wenn Sie rascher publizieren als denken.
As quoted in The Harvest of a Quiet Eye : A Selection of Scientific Quotations (1977) by Alan Lindsay Mackay, p. 117
Jericho Brown (1976) American writer
On how poems might be structured around a political theme in “JERICHO BROWN in conversation with MICHAEL DUMANIS” http://www.benningtonreview.org/jericho-brown-interview in Bennington Review (2018 Oct 27)