March 2012
20 posts
“When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.”
—Robert Frank, Life (26 November 1951)
“the only truth is music”
— jack kerouac
“When people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or that it shouldn’t be read at school because it is irrelevant. I suspect that the people doing the saying have had things pretty easy. A tough life needs a tough language — and that is what poetry is.”
—Jeanette Winterson