Portal:Poetry/Quotes archive/Week 48 2006

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There are certain arts which employ all the means which I have mentioned, such as rhythm and tune and metre--dithyrambic and "nomic" poetry, for example, and tragedy too and comedy. The difference here is that some use all these at once, others use now one now another.

-Aristotle, Poetics

God damn it, you might think a man had no business to be writing, to be a poet unless some philosophic stinker gave him permission.

-William Carlos Williams