Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
Category: poetry
Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.
No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern.
Poetry is man’s rebellion against being what he is.
Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.
Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear.
I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.
I guess the two Manifesto, Communicating Vessels, Mad Love, and some of his poetry made a significant mark on me but as far as bringing a literary element into the music I see it as a much broader assimilation.
On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down, but it’s differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there.
I didn’t want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.