Top 18 Poetry Poetics Quotes
#1. Neuere Poeten tun viel Wasser in die Tinte. (More recent poets put a lot of water in the ink.)
Goethe: Aus Makariens Archiv. Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre. III 18
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#3. The appropriation of the creativity-procreativity metaphor by women is a conscious challenge to traditional poetics and beyond that to traditional metaphysics, for the gynocentric vision is not that Logos condescends to incarnate itself, but that Flesh becomes Word.
Alicia Suskin Ostriker
#4. Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.
Octavio Paz
#5. (She catches sight of herself in the mirror. Go in fear of hyperbole)
Ann Lauterbach
#6. I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.
Moliere
#7. Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers.
George Carlin
#8. Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.
Steve Earle
#9. Listen, listen, listen well. There was an age before the Seasons, when life and Earth, its father, thrived alike. (Life had a mother, too. Something terrible happened to Her.)
N.K. Jemisin
#10. With the sound of gusting wind in the branches of the language trees of Babel, the words gave way like leaves, and every reader glimpsed another reality hidden in the foilage.
Andrei Codrescu
#11. Oh, God, the lovebirds," Magnus said, pulling the pillow off his face. "I hate happy couples.
Cassandra Clare
#12. The next time you hear someone in a workshop remarking on how good a particular free-verse line or passage sounds, scan it. The odds are that it will fall into a regular metrical pattern.
Annie Finch
#13. It's your privilege to find me incomprehensible. I gave you my minutes; let them remain ours. I hope I haunt you.
Theodore Roethke
#14. Tonight I see no spheres, but project myself
and gaze back, an important trick
because the goal is to be on both sides of the poem,
shuttling between the you and I.
Ben Lerner
#15. I so enjoy it when people assume I'm stupid."
"Not that, just very focused on killing.
Ann Aguirre
#16. In 'A Poetics of Optics,' Equi writes that 'all images bank on alchemy.' This idea captures her fundamental sense of poetry as turning common material into something rare and valuable.
Floyd Skloot
#17. Midway between the too soiled ground and the too-sublime vaults, at the level of the air, entering the skin of the role, poetry plays its game.
Michel Leiris
#18. at man's height the mouth utters its cries, tosses forth its oracles, gives vent to its puns. To allow words to come to life, bare themselves, and show us by chance, for the space of a lightning bolt bony with dice, a few of our reasons for living and dying
Michel Leiris
