Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.
John Barton
More from: John Barton
DOWNLOAD
You are free to use this picture for any purpose including commercial. A credit linking back to this page is appreciated.
Similar Quotes:
-
I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn't read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene. -
I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up. -
Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew. -
The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape? -
What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.
More quotes by John Barton
- I have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone.
- No poem is easily grasped so why should any reader expect fast results?
- Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.
- An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive.
- Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools.