"How poetry comes to the poet is..." - Quote by John Lennon
How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.
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“The trouble is, we've been taught what to see and how to render what we see. If only we could be in the position of those men who did those wonderful drawings in Lascaux and Altimira!”
“Among the multitude of scholars and authors, we feel no hallowing presence; we are sensible of a knack and skill rather than of inspiration; they have a light, and know not whence it comes, and call it their own; their talent is some exaggerated faculty, some overgrown member, so that their strength is a disease.”
“Music causes us to think eloquently.”
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“I have my books And my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor, Hiding in my room, safe within my womb. I touch no one and no one touches me. I am a rock, I am an island.”
“If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.”
“I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.”