Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.
Joseph Roux
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The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot. -
But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still. -
I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless. -
Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful. -
When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.
More quotes by Joseph Roux
- Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
- We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
- The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
- We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
- Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.