“I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.”
John Ashbery
“Without space, there is no time.”
Dejan Stojanovic
“There is only as much space, only as much time, only as much desire, only as many words, only as many pages, only as much ink to accept all of us at light-speed hurrying into the Promised Land of oblivion that is waiting for us sooner or later.”
“It is vain futility to analyze the algebra of time.”
“Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.”
T.S. Eliot
“Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.”
Allen Ginsberg
“Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.”
