Poetry Meme
I’m self-tagging myself for this meme from Olie’s blog:
1. “Sometimes you have to make an ass of yourself.” ~ Robert Creeley
2. “Poetry is about trying to get strangers to get interested in your perspective. Your friends will listen, but strangers?” ~ Billy Collins
3. “I feel that I have found the recipe that makes my life work.” ~ Li-Young Lee
4. “I don't think that sex has been written about a lot in poetry. And I want to be able to write about any subject.” ~Sharon Olds
5. “Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself…” ~ Walt Whitman
6. “It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.” ~William Carols Williams
7. “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.” ~Virginia Woolf (I think a woman needs twice as much money if she writes poetry!)
8. “Well, don't kid yourself, I got plenty of crummy poems that I think I might use.” ~Phil Levine
9. “When my first book was published—and I like to say this so women can hear it—my children were 7,5,4,3,2, and 1.” ~ Lucille Clifton
10. “I move to keep things whole” ~ Mark Strand
Give us at least 10 quotations pertaining to poetry—from 10 different writers and/or poets—that best coincide with your philosophy, vis-à-vis ars poetica. They can be posthumous or otherwise. The order is not important—unless it is to you.
1. “Sometimes you have to make an ass of yourself.” ~ Robert Creeley
2. “Poetry is about trying to get strangers to get interested in your perspective. Your friends will listen, but strangers?” ~ Billy Collins
3. “I feel that I have found the recipe that makes my life work.” ~ Li-Young Lee
4. “I don't think that sex has been written about a lot in poetry. And I want to be able to write about any subject.” ~Sharon Olds
5. “Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself…” ~ Walt Whitman
6. “It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.” ~William Carols Williams
7. “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.” ~Virginia Woolf (I think a woman needs twice as much money if she writes poetry!)
8. “Well, don't kid yourself, I got plenty of crummy poems that I think I might use.” ~Phil Levine
9. “When my first book was published—and I like to say this so women can hear it—my children were 7,5,4,3,2, and 1.” ~ Lucille Clifton
10. “I move to keep things whole” ~ Mark Strand
Comments
You should try the meme and see what you come up with!
In the blogosphere, a meme is a prompt or a Q&A that is posted by a blogger and is picked up by other bloggers. So the answers/responses are different from blog to blog. Does that make sense?
Love,
D.