Je vis de bonne soupe, et non de beau langage.
Molière's Les Femmes Savantes (The Learned Ladies)
[I live on good soup, and not beautiful language.]
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A commonplace book; repository of quotes related to poetry and art.
what's he building in there?
Let us not conjecture at random about the greatest things.
—Heraclitus
A commonplace book; repository of quotes related to poetry and art.
what's he building in there?
—Tom Waits
abandon
about
absence
abstract
abstraction
academic
academy
accents
accept
accessibility
accident
account
accuracy
achievement
act
action
actual
actualist
adjectives
Adonis
advert
advertiser
aesthetic range
aesthetics
against poetry
age
Agnes Martin
ahistorical object
air
Albert Goldbarth
alcohol
Alejandra Pizarnik
Alexandrian poets
Alfred Hitchcock
Algernon Charles Swinburne
alien
alienated
Alison Laurie
allegory
Allen Grossman
Allen Tate
alliteration
allusion
alone
amateur
ambiguous
ambition
Ambroise Vollard
anachronistic
ancient
André Breton
anecdote
anger
angle
Anglo-Saxon
animal
animals
Anna Akhmatova
Anna Swir
anonymity
anonymous
anthology
antipoetry
Antonin Artaud
aphorisms
appreciation
approach
approximation
arcades
archetype
Archibald MacLeish
architecture
ardor
argument
Aristotle
army
ars poetica
art
art history
art is
art quote
art quotes
artiness
artisanlike
artist
artist's statement
artists
arts
aspiration
aspirin
assonance
astonish
astonished
atoms
attention
attribute
audience
audio
auditory imagination
Audre Lorde
Auguste Rodin
aural
author
awards
ax
axioms
bad reviews
bad writing
ballads
Barbara Howes
baroque
Basho
bauble
Baudelaire
Beat poetry
beauty
becoming
becoming a poet
beginning
being
belief
believe
bells
Ben Jonson
Bertolt Brecht
Bertrand Russell
better
bildungs
birds
Black Mountain College
blank
blend
block
blotted
blue
blurbs
Bob Dylan
Bob Kaufman
bodily
body
book
book burning
book marketing
books
bookshelf
Boris Pasternak
borrow
boundary
brain science
branches
bread
breakages
breath
breathing
brevity
bric-a-brac
bridge
brief poem
brilliance
Brion Gysin
building
business
butterflies
buying books
C. Day Lewis
C. G. Jung
C. K. Chesterton
C. P. Cavafy
C.D. Wright
calculus
calvinist
campus
candor
canon
career
careful
Carl Sandburg
castles
cat
cataclysm
category
caution
central image
certainty
César Vallejo
chair
change
chaperoned
character
charge
Charles Bukowski
Charles Eliot Norton
Charles Olson
Charles Reznikoff
Charles Simic
chasing
Chaucer
checkers
cheese
chess
child
childhood
chimeras
Chinese poetry
Chistopher Hitchens
chorus
Christopher Marlowe
church
cicada
civilizations
clarity
clash
clay
cliché
closed
closure
collections
collide
colloquial
color
comma
comment
common ground
common life
commonplace
commonplace book
commonplaces
communication
compactness
complexity
compliment
composition
concentration
concept
conception
concision
concrete
conflict
confusion
conjunctions
connected
consensus
consistency
consolation of poetry
constancies
contemporaries
contemporary
content
context
continuing
continuous process
contrasts
contribute
control
cooked
copulation
correlation
cosmos
couplet
cowardice
cows
crack
craft
creation
creativity
creator
credo
critic
critical approach
critical method
critical remark
critical terms
criticism
critics
crow
crown
cultivation
culture
cunning. fatherland
currency
customary
cut
Czeslaw Milosz
D.H. Lawrence
dada
daily lives
dance
danger
Daniel Aaron
Dante
dark
dark things
darkness
David Bowie
David Ignatow
David Joselit
dead
dead poets
death
decay
deep down things
defamiliarization
defense of poetry
definition
definition of poetry
deformity
delicate
delight
Delmore Schwartz
democratic
Denise Levertov
derive
description
design
despair
destiny
destruction
devouring
dialect
diction
dictionary
difficulty
digital literature
direction
dirge
discipline
discover
discovery
discrimination
disenchant
disgusting
disintoxicate
distillation
distinction
diverse
divine art
divinely conscious
domes
Don Quixote
Donald Justice
door
doubt
dramatic function
dream poem
drinking
duende
durable
dust
Dylan Thomas
E. B. White
E. H. Gombrich
E. M. Cioran
ear
earth
ease
Eavan Boland
eclectic
economy
ecstasy
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Degas
Edmond Spenser
Eduardo Galeano
educate
education
Edward Burns-Jones
Edward Thomas
effort
ego
elemental forms
elephants
Elias Canetti
Elizabeth Bishop
emcompass
Emily Dickinson
eminent Victorians
emotion
employment
end
energy
engagement
English
ephemeral
epic
epitaph
Eric Ormsby
erosion
erotic
erotics
error
escape
essence
essential
estrangement
et in arcardia ego
ethics
ethos
etymologist
etymology
Eugenio Montale
event
Evgény Abrámovitch Baratýnsky
evocativeness
exact
exaltation
excitement
execution
exhausted
exile
existence
existent
experience
explain
explanation
explicit
expression
eye
Ezra Pound
fables
fact
factory
facts
fairy-land
fallow
falsehood
familiar
fancy
fantasy
farmers
fashion
favorite poems
favorite poets
favorite word
Federico Garcia Lorca
feeling
feelings
Fernando Pessoa
fiction
field of study
figure
film
fin de siècle
fine excess
finish
finished
fires
first person
first poems
first poetry
first speech
flaw
fluid
flying
folly
footnote
footnotes
force
Ford Madox Ford
forgetfulness
form
forms
formula
fossil poetry
foundation
fragment
fragments
framing
Francis Bacon
Frank O'Hara
Franz Kafka
Frederick Smock
free
free speech
free verse
freedom
freshness
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Schlegel
friend
frost
frozen sea
fulcrum
function
furniture
future
G. K. Chesterton
G.H.W. Rylands
G.W.F. Hegel
Gabriela Mistral
galaxy
Gaston Bachelard
gaudiness
genius
genre
gentlemen
Geoffrey Moore
George Bernard Shaw
George Oppen
George Santayana
George Seferis
Georgia O'Keeffe
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Gertrude Stein
get it right
gewgaw
ghosts
Giacomo Leopardi
gift
God
gold
gold bars
good poetry
grail
grammar
grasp
gratitude
gray
great poem
great poet
great themes
great writer
Greek art
Greek poetry
grief
group
Guillaume Apollinaire
Guy Davenport
H.T. Tobias A. Wright
habit
hackwork
haiku
half
harem
harmonic
harmonious
Harold Bloom
harvest
Hayden Carruth
head
hear
heart
Heather McHugh
Helen Vendler
Henry David Thoreau
Henry James
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Heraclitus
Herbert Read
Herman Melville
hermeneutics
hidden
hidden place
history
home
Homer
hometown
honors
Horace
horizon
horrible
house
how does it mean
Howard Nemerov
human
human existence
humane
humor
hunger
I-lyric
iconclast
idea
ideal reader
ideas
idiosyncratic
idolatry
ignorance
image
imagery
images
imagination
imitate
immediacy
immortal
impact
imperfect
improvement
impulse
include
income
incomplete
incongruity
independence
indeterminate
Indian poetry
indifference
indirect
influence
information
infusion
ingenutiy
injured
inner
inner workings
innocent
innovation
inorganic
inscription
insouciance
inspiration
instant
insular
integrity
intellect
intellectual
intelligence
interpretation
interview
intuition
invent
invention
Ireland
iridescent
Irish poetry
Italian poetry
Ivor Winters
J. S. Mill
J.M. Coetzee
J.V. Cunningham
Jack Gilbert
Jacques Barzun
Jacques Maritain
James Dickey
James Joyce
James Longenbach
James Murray
James Richardson
James Scully
James Wright
Jane Hirshfield
Jayanta Mahapatra
Jean Cocteau
Jennifer Roberts
JF
Jim Harrison
Joanne Kyger
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Johannes Brahms
John Ashbery
John Berryman
John Ciardi
John Hollander
John Keats
John Marin
John Milton
Jorge Luis Borges
Jorie Graham
Joseph Brodsky
Joseph Epstein
Josephine Jacobsen
Josiah Royce
joy
Jr.
Juan Ramón Jiménez
judgment
jujubes
Jules Supervielle
Justus Buchler
Kenneth Rexroth
Kenneth Yasuda
key
key phrases
kintsugi
knights
knowledge
label
labor
laborious
landscape
landscapes
language
language game
language poetry
last line
lasting things
Latin
Latin Poetry
Latinate vocabulary
laughter
Laura Riding
law of errors
leave off
length
Leonard Cohen
library
life
life of the poet
light
limit
line
line break
line ending
lineage
lines
Lisel Mueller
list making
lists
literal
literary anecdote
literature
lives of the artists
lives of the poets
living
living thing
logic
long line
long poem
longing
Longinus
looking
lost
lost languages
Louis Aragon
Louis MacNeice
Louis Sullivan
Louis Zukofsky
Louise Bogan
Louise Glück
love
love poetry
lover
Lu Ji
Lucian Blaga
Lucian of Samosata
Ludwig Wittgenstein
luxury
Lyn Hejinian
lyric
lyric poetry
lyrical
M.C. Richards
machine
madness
magic
magnitude
Magyars
majesty
make
make it new
maker
making
man from porlock
mannerism
Margeurite Yourcenar
marginalia
Marianne Moore
Marina Tsvetaeva
Marjorie Agosin
Mark Doty
Mark Leidner
Mark Rothko
Martial
martyrs
master
material
mathematics
matter
Matthew Arnold
Max Jacob
Maya
meaning
means
media
Melville Cane
memoir
memorizing poems
memory
mentally prepared
metaphor
metaphors
metaphysical
meter
method
Meyer Schapiro
Michael Oakeshott
Michelangelo
Miguel de Cervantes
Miltonic
mind
minor poet
Mira Rosenthal
mischief
mise en scène
misprint
model
modern
modernism
modest
Molière
moment
momentary
money
monk
moral
motion
motto
movie
multidimensional
multiplicity
multum in parvo
Muriel Rukeyser
muses
music
musical setting
mysteries
mystery
myth
mythopoeic
mythos
myths
name
nameless
naming
narcissism
narrative business
natural
naturalist
naturally
nature
Nazim Hikmet
necessity
need
negation
negative capability
neglect
nerve
new
new poetry
newness
news
newspaper
Nobel Prize for Literature
nobly disheveled
Northrop Frye
notebook
notes
noun
Novalis
novel
novelist
novelty
nursery rhyme
object
objective
objective correlative
objectivists
objects
obligation
oblique
obscure
obscurity
observation
observer
Occam's Razor
occupations
Octavio Paz
OED
old
Old English
old poetry
one's art
open
opinion
opposite
opposition
order
ordinary
ordinary language
ordinary things
organic
original
originality
ornament
Oscar Wilde
Osip Mandelstam
ostranenie
outer
output
outside world
outsiders
overused words
Pablo Neruda
Pablo Picasso
pace
page
pain
painter
painters
painting
panorama
paradise
paragraph
parent
parerga
part
Parthenon
particularity
partisan
passages
passion
past
pathos
patience
pattern
Paul Cézanne
Paul Klee
Paul Valéry
paul verlaine
pebble
pedagogy
pelican
penalty
pentimenti
people
perceptible
perception
perceptions
percision
Percy Bysshe Shelley
perfect
perfection
performance
period
permanent
person
personal library
personality
personificaiton
pet words
Peter Viereck
Phalaris
phenomenology
Philip Levine
philosopher
philosophy
phrase
physical
physical reaction
Pierre Bonnard
pigments
place
plain
Plato
playwright
pleasure
poem is
poet
poet is
poet's calling
poet's job
poetic
poetic elements
poetic image
poetic limits
poetic line
poetics
poetics essays
poetry
poetry books
poetry collection
poetry is
poetry reading patter
poetry readings
poetry v. prose
poets
poets' poet
polictian
Polish poetry
political poetry
popular songs
potato
potency
potential
power
praise
prayer
precious
precise
precision
present moment
priest
primitive
printer
problems
process
product
proper names
props
prose
prose errand
prosody
pseudo-romanticism
public
publication
publisher
punctuation
pure poetry
purpose
qualities
Quasimodo
question
quiet
quirky
quotation
quotes
Rainer Maria Rilke
Ralph J. Mills
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Randall Jarrell
rapid
rare
raw
reader
readership
reading
reading aloud
reading poetry
real
realist
reality
reason
recognition
record
recording
recurring words
refine
rejected
rejection slip
relationships
religion
remark
remarks
remembrance
rendering
repair
repetition
reputation
resist
resonance
responsibility
result
revelation
reviewers
revision
revolution
rhetoric
rhyme
rhythm
Richard Howard
Richard Hugo
Richard Wilbur
right
right word
river
roam
Robert Bly
Robert Duncan
Robert Frost
Robert Graves
Robert Lowell
Robert Penn Warren
Robert Philips
Robert Southey
Robert Walser
Robinson Jeffers
rock
rock star
rocks
Roland Barthes
role
Roman Jakobson
Roman poetry
romantic
romantic poetry
romanticism
root
Roque Dalton
Rudolf Steiner
Russian Formalism
Russian poetics
S. T. Coleridge
sailors
same poem
Samuel Johnson
Sappho
saturate
saved
saying
scheme
scholars
school
science
scope
scrape
scraps of language
scrawl
sculpture
secret of poetry
see
seeing
self
self-critical
self-indulgent
semantic
semicolon
sensations
sense
senses
sensibility
sensuality
sentence
sentence diagraming
sentence structure
sentences
sentimental
separate
serious
serpent
setting
sexism
Shakespeare
shamefaced
shapes
shards
sharp remark
shepherd
shop-talk
shopping
short line
short story
silence
silent
simile
Simone Weil
simple
simplicity
simplify
sing
skeleton
skill
slant
sleep
slights
small
small forms
small poem
small things
soap bubble
society
Socrates
solid
soliloquy
solitude
Solon the Wise
solutions
song
song lyrics
sophistication
Soren Kierkegaard
sorrow
soul
sound
sound and sense
soup
space
Spanish
speaker
specific
speech
sphinx
spirit
spiritual
St. John Perse
St. Thomas Aquinas
stained-glass
staircase
stakes
stance
standards
Stanley Fish
Stanley Kunitz
stanza
star
static
stature
stay
steal
steel
Stephen Leacock
Stephen Spender
sterile
stone
stop
stories
stormy
strange
stress
structure
student
students
stumbling
style
subject
subjective
subjectivity
subjects
sublime
substance
substitution of terms
subtle
suffering
supreme fiction
surprise
surrealism
Susan Sontag
Susanne Langer
sustenance
syllable
Sylvia Plath
symbol
symbols
sympathetic magic
sympathies
sympathy
system
systematic
T.S. Eliot
table
table talk
Tagore
tale
talent
talk poetry
taste
taxonomy
teaching
teaching writing
tear
tears
technique
techniques
Ted Hughes
teeth
tell
teller
temptation
tenderness
the age
the bar
the big short
the times
theatre
theft
Theodore Roethke
theology
theory
thing
thing itself
thingness
things
thinking
Thom Gunn
Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Hardy
thought
thoughts
three-name poets
time
time batteries
times
tissue
Tomas Tranströmer
tools
Torquato Tasso
totality
touch
tourist
toy
trade
tradition
traditional form
tragedy
transcendent
transformation
translation
tree
tremble
triggering town
trinket
trivial
trope
trust
truth
turn
twenty-fifth poem
twisting
typo
tyrants
ugly
Umberton Eco
uncertainty
understanding
unity
universal
universe
university
untranslatable
ursprache
ut pictura poesis
Vachel Lindsay
vagueness
vector
veneration
verities
verse
verse is
vices
Vienna
Viktor Shklovsky
village explainer
violence
Virgil
Virginia Woolf
virtues
vision
Vladimir Nabokov
vocabulary
vocation
Vuillard
vulgar
W. B. Yeats
W. H. Auden
W. R. Johnson
W. Somerset Maugham
wag
walking
Wallace Stevens
Walt Whitman
Walter Anderson
Walter Pater
war
waste
water pistols
weather
weaver
Wei T'ai
Weldon Kees
well-made
Werner Heisenberg
whales
what's poetry for
where poems come from
white fathers
whole
wild
wild flower
wildness
will
William Blake
William Carlos Williams
William Gass
William Jay Smith
William Morris
William Shakespeare
William Stafford
William Wordsworth
wind
window
wine
winter
wisdom
wit
witness
women
women's poetry
women's writing
wonder
word
word play
words
wordum wrixlan
work
work of art
world
writing
writing poetry
writing well
written poetry
wrong words
yiddish
young poets
youth
Yvor Winters
Zbigniew Herbert
Zeuxis
Zibaldone
entries
heraclitus