Richard Ford Quotes

The Question 'Why Poetry?' Isn't Asking What Makes Poetry Unique Among Art Forms; Poetry May Indeed Share Its Origins With Other Forms Of Privileged Utterance. A Somewhat More Interesting Question Would Be: "What Is The Nature Of Experience, And Especially The Experience Of Using Language, That Calls Poetic Utterance Into Existence? What Is There About Experience That's Unutterable?" You Can't Generalize Very Usefully About Poetry; You Can't Reduce Its Nature Down To A Kernel That Underlies All Its Various Incarnations. I Guess My Internal Conversation Suggests That If You Can't Successfully Answer The Question Of "Why Poetry?," Can't Reduce It In The Way I Think You Can't, Then Maybe That's The Strongest Evidence That Poetry's Doing Its Job; It's Creating An Essential Need And Then Satisfying It.

Related Authors

• Chris Edelson
• Dino Stamatopoulos
• Dwight V. Swain
• Gail Steketee
• Leonard Roy Frank
• Lester Horton
• Lyman Bryson
• Mark Winter
• Michael Weston
• Piper Vaughn Xara X Xanakas
• Sidney Buchman
• Zia Haider Rahman

Related Topics

• Quotes About Fear Consuming You

  It's tough, acting. You have to walk two lines of a tightrope. There's the all-consuming fear of failure: I'm about to fall flat on my face. There's that and there's — Jessica Chastain

• Quotes About Family Missing Out

  John Le Mesurier wishes it to be known that he conked out on November 15th. He sadly misses family and friends. — John Le Mesurier

• Quotes About Finally Being Yourself

  When we do not succeed to be ourselves, we finally realize that is was completely useless to exist ... — Hugo Pratt

• Quotes About Death Of A Grandma

  My brother distrusts the essential truth of memories; I distrust the way we colour them in. We each have our own cheap-mail-order paintbox, and our favourite hues. Thus, I remembered — Julian Barnes

• Time To Keep Silence Quotes

  Silence can answer the question words may fail to answer. If you want to know what silence can do, keep silence! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah