V odgovor na komentarje moje zadnje pesnitve sem se odločil, da zberem nekaj misli o poetih, pesmih in poeziji od ljudi, ki vedo o teh zadevah gigantsko več kot jaz. Zato da približno začutite, zakaj nima smisla in zakaj tudi ne želim odgovarjati na vprašanja o svojih pesmih, jih komentirati, razlagati ipd. Navedel bom nekaj misli (večino pobral tukaj), za katere čutim, da jih vsaj približno razumem in se posledično z njimi tudi strinjam.
Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.
~ Eli Khamarov, The Shadow Zone
A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
~ Wallace Stevens, Opus Posthumous, 1957
A poem begins with a lump in the throat.
~ Robert Frost
[A poem] begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
~ Robert Frost, The Figure a Poem Makes, 1939
A poem should not mean
But be.
~ Archibald MacLeish, Ars Poetica, 1926
It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.
~ Stephen Mallarme
Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.
~ W.B. Yeats
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
~ Novalis
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
~ Salvatore Quasimodo
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
~ Robert Frost
Poetry is life distilled.
~ Gwendolyn Brooks
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
~ Samuel Johnson
Poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
~ Paul Engle, New York Times, 17 February 1957
Misel, ki sledi, pa mi je ena ljubših, ker mojstrsko povezuje dve meni ljubi stvari.
Mathematics and Poetry are… the utterance of the same power of imagination, only that in the one case it is addressed to the head, in the other, to the heart.
~ Thomas Hill
Sledi ena, s katero se ne morem najbolj strinjati, ampak se mi zdi, da jo bom nekoč morda celo lahko razumel:
You can’t write poetry on the computer.
~ Quentin Tarantino
Za konec pa še ena zanimiva “lekcija življenja” iz Društva mrtvih pesnikov:
We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
~ Dead Poet’s Society
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