Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
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Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.
Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.
Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.
For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.
I have the feeling that a lot of poets writing now are - they sort of tap dance through it.
Poetry is composing for the breath.
The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them.
The crown of literature is poetry.
I think writing a poem is like being a greyhound. Writing a novel is like being a mule. You go up one long row, then down another, and try not to look up too often to see how far you still have to go.