One-Liners

"Poetry today has as one of its tasks that of clearing public life of images and giving us art instead."
~ Lyn Hejinian, "The Sad Note in a Poetics of Consciousness," in Poetry and Public Language (2007)
[As cited by Catherine Martin in "No Way Out" (Pores, August 2008)]

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"Too often, the focus on literal truth presents us not with the essence or core of the poet's being, but with the patio furniture of his or her life."
~ David Alpaugh, "The Professionalization of Poetry" (2003): Part One, Part Two

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"There is a weather report in almost every folk poem. The sun is shining; it was snowing; the wind was blowing.... The folk poet knows that it's wise to immediately establish the connection between the personal and the cosmic."
~ Charles Simic, The Monster Loves His Labyrinth: Notebooks (2008)
[Excerpt at Poetry Daily]