Description
The QUIPS and QUOTES chapbook consists of 100 remarkably provocative quips, plus 25 insightful quotes from critically acclaimed poet, R.D. Stone. These are from over 25 years of his writing experience and in creating over 6000 poems! He shares his thoughts on poets, poetry writing, and the agency it inspires; including the muse which drives the ink. The book is refreshingly unique, quite intriguing with an array of gestations and posturings, both fun and authentic … it is a great addition to your library!
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QUIPS:
“Looking through the sky of ideas to find a reason… . a poem is born”
”Poet – the most difficult word in any language, in any dictionary”
”Poets live between a verb and a comma”
“From the flesh of humanity, poetry bleeds…words begging for survival”
“Poetry seems to be affected by events, sometimes pompous, sometimes afraid”
‘Poetry does not ask to be written… . it’s a first language… words pressing up against the window”
“Poetry is a sacred fate waiting for us to find it”
QUOTES:
“Poetry awakens consciousness to a broader dimension of meanings; the possibilities found in the essence… . and through our distillations, the myriads of variations and alternative methods, it’s not just a process of collective words seeking salvation; but rather a dedication pointing the way”
“Poetry’s an interesting creature… . appearing when it chooses; often to coax, often to humiliate and in some instances, a mechanism that thrashes back, to give a beating, a bleeding, using blood-fluids to write elixir on walls of retaliation”
“A poet hopes the netherworld brings sentiments of dreams to dream, the blueprint of infinity in the anatomy of ink, aspirations finding the vortex of destiny awaiting paper, a relevancy seeking perpetuity in becoming more recognizable, wrapped for want, and more than just being”
“Every true wordsmith speaks visions from a breath and from our own poetic undertakings we need listen and hear the ocean’s curling wave, a distant star’s iridescence, a waterfall’s purest roar, a boom of thunder or laughter which claims the wheeled sky, reminding us of who we are or where we’ve been…to collect life’s essence and that of ourselves”
“We do not choose how we shall write poetry, and by no means are free… it already preexists both necessary and hidden — that is to say as if by a law of nature to discover it, we are obliged to seek and find it hiding between the parallels”
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