Dennis O'Driscoll (1954–2012) Irish poet, critic
Interview by email with Elizabeth MacDonald 2004, published 'Poetry Ireland Review'
Poetry Quotes
“The genuinely innovatory, the truly 'experiential' poetry is always firmly rooted in the achievement of the past.”
A Proper Gentleman, 1977
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British boxer and poet 1922–2007Related quotes
Thomas Kuhn book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Source: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), II. The Route to Normal Science, p. 10
“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”
T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author
“Truly fine poetry must be read aloud.”
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature
"The Divine Comedy" (1977)
Context: Truly fine poetry must be read aloud. A good poem does not allow itself to be read in a low voice or silently. If we can read it silently, it is not a valid poem: a poem demands pronunciation. Poetry always remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. It remembers that it was first song.
Walter Raymond Spalding (1865–1962) American music pedagogue and author
Page 37 https://books.google.com/books?id=pQARAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA37. <br class="br">Music: An Art and a Language (1920), Polyphonic Music; Sebastian Bach (Ch. III)
