Good to be reminded of these again, Jon. Thanks.
Doug
On 15-Jan-07, at 6:47 PM, Jon Corelis wrote:
> This was posted here before but quite some time ago, so some current
> list members won't have seen it. Since it's relevant to a current
> thread, I'm posting it again.
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>
> How and Why To Write Poetry: advice from those who know
>
>
> 1) Today dear friends I will sing beautifully and make you happy.
> -- Sappho
>
> 2) The objects the imitator represents are actions.
> -- Aristotle
>
> 3) A big book is a big bore.
> -- Callimachus
>
> 4) Don't pay any attention to book prizes! Never. To none. Not
> even the Nobel. They are a snare. -- Vincent Miller
>
> 5) Literature is language charged with meaning.
> -- Ezra Pound
>
> 6) A man can learn more about poetry by really knowing and
> examining a few of the best poems than by meandering about among
> a great many. -- Ezra Pound
>
> 7) Miles Davis (after a gig): Man, why do you play so long?
> John Coltrane: I had to play that long, to get it all in.
>
> 8) True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd,
> What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd.
> -- Pope
>
> 9) Silence can be complex too,
> but you do not get far
> with silence.
> -- William Carlos Williams
>
> 10) Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to
> keep watch over my thoughts, because if a line of poetry strays
> into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to
> act.
> -- A. E. Housman
>
> 11) For us there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
> -- T. S. Eliot
>
> 12) No data without experiment.
> -- Sophocles, tr. Ezra Pound
>
> 13) Say what you will in two
> Words and get through.
> Long, frilly
> Palaver is silly.
> -- Marie-Francoise-Catherine de
> Beauveau, tr. Ezra Pound
>
> 14) Interviewer: Doesn't it embarrass you to see Bobby trying to
> learn how to play slide on stage? Jerry Garcia: Um, yeah.
> But the point is, it doesn't embarrass him.
>
> 15) Take this, this Psalm, from me, burst from my hand in a day ...
> -- Allen Ginsberg
>
> 16) Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the World.
> -- Shelley
>
> 17) It is difficult
> to get the news from poems
> yet men die miserably every day
> for lack
> of what is found there.
> -- William Carlos Williams
>
> 18) For years on years I have struggled with ink and hammer, O my
> tortured heart, to make you an embroidery of fire and gold, an
> orangetree hyancinth, a blossoming quince to console you ...
> -- Nikos Gatsos
>
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> Jon Corelis www.geocities.com/jgcorelis/
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