Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
Khalil Gibran
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While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice. -
But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it. -
When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn't need translation. It's like poetry, it touches you. -
That's one of the great things about poetry one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were. -
Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
More quotes by Khalil Gibran
- Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
- I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
- Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
- Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
- Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.