Alexander Pope Quotes

The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe's pajamas.

When an analogy is really singing, it's what you want it to be.

I guess I have a weird habit of writing body part metaphors.

There's this poet named Walter Benton, I really like his stuff. He always uses landscapes as a metaphor for the female body.

Poetry is a slipknot tightened around a time-beat of one thought, two thoughts, and a last interweaving thought there is not yet a number for.

Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.

Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a picture, then there are rough words which are very telling, they make their mark.

Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit.

Virgil, above all poets, had a stock which I may call almost inexhaustible, of figurative, elegant, and sounding words.

I think fiction goes to poetry for the intensity of its use of language.

When I first started reading poetry, all the poets I read - Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier - were rhyme poets. That's what captured me.

That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the pronouncements of a Plato can disestablish.

Lately, I've been thinking about the difference between poetry and prose, and as I've experienced it, poetry is insistent. It allows for images and statements to operate in a single space and resonate powerfully without the application to be elaborated upon and narrated.

I've been writing poetry seriously since about 2008, 2009.

It's very easy to think about rhymes and just usage of words that sound good but don't mean anything. Basically, I try to put into song the way people actually talk.

I am a consummate metaphor addict.

You can read my stuff; there are not very many quotes. It's more impressionistic.

My writing is not just all facts and voices. I strive to create a text that works as a sign, pointing out undercurrents that lie beneath the facts.

When I first began writing, it was not in screenwriting but in poetry. That form was so evocative, all about the image and the emotion captured in a Polaroid-like smattering of words.

It's a big statement if you use the word 'America' in the title of your poem.

When it comes to poetry, I think partly the numbers of people attempting to write poems is probably a result or the reaction to technology.

And what is the very essence of poetry if it is not this 'metaphorical language'-this marking of the before unapprehended relations of things?

Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.

Poetry is the capture of a picture, a song, or a flair, in a deliberate prism of words.

Metaphors are an interesting example of creating magic in prose.