May a poet write as a poet or must he write as a period? For modernism, in this perverted sense, likewise becomes a critical tyranny, increasing contemporary mannerisms in poetry instead of freeing the poet of obligation to conform to any particular set of literary theories."
—Laura Riding and Robert Graves, A Survey of Modernist Poetry (1927)
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behind painting
Writing is fifty years behind painting. I propose to apply the painters' techniques to writing; things as simple as immediate as collage or montage.
—Brion Gysin,"Cut-Ups Self-Explained," Let the Mice In (Something Else Press, 1973) edited by Jan Herman
—Brion Gysin,"Cut-Ups Self-Explained," Let the Mice In (Something Else Press, 1973) edited by Jan Herman
ahead of its time
And poetry, which is generally ahead of its time, may go so far ahead as to seem behind in time.
—Eugenio Montale, Poet In Our Time (Marion Boyars, 1979)
—Eugenio Montale, Poet In Our Time (Marion Boyars, 1979)
permanently contemporary
Poets worth reading usually believe things the age they live in no longer does. Poets are always anachronistic, obsolete, unfashionable, and permanently contemporary.
—Charles Simic, The Monster Loves His Labyrinth: Notebooks (Ausable Press, 2008)
—Charles Simic, The Monster Loves His Labyrinth: Notebooks (Ausable Press, 2008)
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