John Hollander quotes
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“Poetry gets to be the poetry of life by successfully becoming first the poetry of poetry.”
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“Geoffrey Hill may be the strongest and most original English poet of the second half of our fading century, although his work is by no means either easy or very popular. Dense, intricate, exceedingly compact, his poetry has always had great visionary force.”
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“A long project is like a secret houseguest, hidden in your study, waiting to be fed and visited.”
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“We speak of memorizing as getting something 'by heart,' which really means 'by head.' But getting a poem or prose passage truly 'by heart' implies getting it by mind and memory and understanding and delight.”
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“When Adam found his rib was gone He cursed and sighed and cried and swore And looked with cold resentment on The creature God has used it for.”
-- John HollanderSource : John Hollander (1978). “Spectral emanations: new and selected poems”
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“To understand The signs that stars compose, we need depend Only on stars that are entirely there And the apparent space between them. There Never need be lines between them, puzzling Our sense of what is what.”
-- John HollanderSource : John Hollander (1972). “Selected poems”, Harvill Secker
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Source : Alfred Austin (1885). “At the Gate of the Convent: And Other Poems”
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“Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.”
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“One of the first signs of a Spirit-filled life is enthusiasm!”
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“That's already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.”
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