Juan Felipe Herrera Quotes

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Keetje Kuipers' poems are daring, formally beautiful and driven by rich imagery and startling ideas.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry.

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.

I'm a poet.

Poems don't have to rhyme... Poems are about beauty and emotion; in other words poems are about feelings.

The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense (Spence, Anecdotes

I feel that anything is possible in a poem.

Prose is walking; poetry is flying

Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.

I think that you certainly don't have to be aged and travel the world to write a poem.

Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

A lot happens by accident in poetry.

I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.

Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.