Floyd Skloot Quotes

Poetry is not an issue of form and enjambments. Poetry, as the word is classically used, has to do with sound and sense. It can be rhyme. It can be rhythm, pace, breath.

I love form, but I'm not interested in forms. I've never written a sonnet or villanelle or sestina or any of that. For me, it's a kind of line. It's a rhythm. It's something musical.

Poetry is meant to be heard.

Poems are a form of music, and language just happens to be our instrument - language and breath.

I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable.

There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and the shape and the sound.

The long poem cannot be a digressive, expansive, boring exposition. It is really made of very sharp, Imagistic, quintessential poetic elements.

Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.

When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.

I use not casual phrases but imagistic phrases that create a rhythm of natural presence.

Poetry stands or falls by its music.

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.

All through childhood, I wrote verses and mysteries. There is, for me, one connection: structure. My poetry is metrical, rhyming.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.

I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.

I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem are very important to me.

It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.

Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment.

I always read poetry before I write, to sensitize me to the rhythms and music of language.

Poetry is composing for the breath.