#poe

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. ↗

— Antonin Artaud

#destroyed #make #once #others #poetry

The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be. ↗

— John Ashbery

#cannot #poem #sad #wants #yours

I would kiss you in the middle of the ocean during a lightning storm cuz I'd rather be left for dead than wondering what thunder sounds like. ↗

— Andrea Gibson

#love #poem #wasabi #love

It is important to me that what Poe has to say gets across to people. I want to give people the feeling that I get from all this. I think that we are succeeding. The feedback is very warm. ↗

— John Astin

#feedback #feeling #get #gets #give

One life is worth the universe. Poe was able to go right into the very depth of life and to demonstrate this. ↗

— John Astin

#demonstrate #depth #go #into #life

People are transported to that space that Poe wanted to make available to us. ↗

— John Astin

#make #people #poe #space #transported

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#objects #poet #professional #verbal

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love. ↗

— Philip James Bailey

#great #love #poets #tell #them

My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative. ↗

— Bob Balaban

#baby #been #born #business #business school

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do. ↗

— Stephen Spender

#beyond #go #great #poetry #somebody