
“I wanted to find out why Shelley could write better-sounding poetry than I.”
Los Angeles Times (1970); on why he chose to pursue phonetics.
“I wanted to find out why Shelley could write better-sounding poetry than I.”
Los Angeles Times (1970); on why he chose to pursue phonetics.
Griffin Prize Questionnaire June 2012
Griffin Poetry Prize Questionnaire
Quoted by Nishitha Desai in Lusotopie 2000, p. 474
“Therefore, why not plastic forms in motion?... one can compose motions.”
1930s - 1950s, Statement from Modern Painting and Sculpture', (1933)
Antonin Scalia, A Matter of Interpretation 23 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998). http://web.archive.org/web/20060911103004/http://www.tannerlectures.utah.edu/lectures/scalia97.pdf (PDF).
1990s
Remarks at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (14 June 1956) http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/JFK-Quotations.aspx; Box 895, Senate Speech Files, John F. Kennedy Papers, Pre-Presidential Papers, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
Pre-1960
On his preferred poetry style in “Prose Interviews London Poet Raymond Antrobus” https://medium.com/prose-matters/prose-interviews-london-poet-raymond-antrobus-c0e1fdf720b9 in Medium Magazine (2016 Mar 30)
1930s, Statement from Modern Painting and Sculpture (1933)