I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.
I only wish the poets would say this too: love is of the body; not the body, but of the the body. Ah! the misery that would be saved if we confessed that! Ah! for a little directness to liberate the soul!
Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time.
That's what artists do, that's what poets do - we all do it. We start with something, and sometimes we destroy everything that we've made in order to get to the core place where we started from.
The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.
The New York School poets are my godfathers creatively.
Poets don't finish poems, they abandon them.
Color is the language of the poets. It is astonishingly lovely. To speak it is a privilege.
The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!
People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.
Keelhaul the poets in the vestry chairs.
Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
The noblest art is the nude. This truth is recognized by all, and followed by painters, sculptors and poets. Only the dancer has forgotten it, who should remember it, as the instrument of [the dance] art is the human body itself.
I moved on to the University of California, Berkley, coordinating interpreters for Deaf students at the university. The first year I was at Berkley, we brought in artists, performers, actors, and poets to create a Deaf arts festival. I did a lot of the interpreting for the stage performers. By the second year, I realized that I really liked producing arts festivals that had to do something with signing.
The BFI exists to celebrate all poets of world cinema, of the past and present.
if you think it so easy to be a critic, so difficult to be a poet or a painter or film experimenter, may I suggest you try both? You may discover why there are so few critics, so many poets.
Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.
Where politics is concerned, I think poets have to be pragmatists, philosophical pragmatists.
The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.