Poetry and Hums aren’t things which you get, they’re things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.
Poetry Quotes
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
When a poet presents you with blank leaves you should consider it no small present.
If you want to make a song more hummy, add a few tiddely poms.
Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.
Knowledge of the subject is to the poet what durable materials are to the architect.
Poetry is probably the one field of writing in which it is a mistake to try to psych out editors. In fact, specific marketing advice can sometimes harm the novice poet by enticing him to pursue fashions. The poet’s best hope is to sound like nobody else, The finest, most enduring poetry constructs a marketplace […]
Hebrew poetry comprises almost 50% of the Old Testament. Hebrew poetry differs from English poetry in that the emphasis is on parallel thoughts, where in English poetry the emphasis is on rhyme and meter. This correspondence of thought in Hebrew poetry is called parallelism. It is the distinguishing mark the Hebrew poet. Each line has […]
To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of uncertainty, has been always a delicious employment of the poets.
That’s the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
