Showing posts with label language of poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label language of poetry. Show all posts
4.13.2015
10.29.2011
removed from spoken language
The value of the language of poetry is directly proportional to its being removed from the spoken language. This is what common people cannot understand, since they do not want to accept the fact that a poet endeavors to express only the unutterable.
—Vicente Huidobro, “Poetry,” lecture delivered at El Ateneo de Madrid, 1921, The Poet is a Little God (Xenos Books, 1990), translated by Jorge García Gόmez.
—Vicente Huidobro, “Poetry,” lecture delivered at El Ateneo de Madrid, 1921, The Poet is a Little God (Xenos Books, 1990), translated by Jorge García Gόmez.
5.16.2008
9.11.2007
not the language of the age
The language of the age is never the language of poetry.
—Thomas Gray (1716-1771), in a letter to Richard West, 8 April 1742
—Thomas Gray (1716-1771), in a letter to Richard West, 8 April 1742
9.16.2006
7.24.2006
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