Archive for January, 2007

thoughts on poetry

Thursday, January 25th, 2007

“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”
T.S. Eliot

“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.”
Emily Dickinson

“Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.”
T.S. Eliot

“Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.”
Charles Simic

Your thoughts?