#poe

Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#go #poets #through #tough #use

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#being #book #creation #give #human

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#die #first #i #like #live

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#call #himself #i #i think #poet

A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#i #i am #naked #people #people say

It's not easy to define poetry. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#easy #poetry

I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don't think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

#being #competitions #creative #creative writing #enter

Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life. ↗

— C.D. Wright

#life

Laser technology has fulfilled our people's ancient dream of a blade so fine that the person it cuts remains standing and alive until he moves and cleaves. Until we move, none of us can be sure that we have not already been cut in half, or in many pieces, by a blade of light. It is safest to assume that our throats have already been slit, that the slightest alteration in our postures will cause the painless severance of our heads. ↗

— Ben Lerner

#dreams

I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#capacity #completely #consumed #continuing #define