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John Hollander
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“Poetry may be written on paper, but it’s an oral art.A good poem satisfies the ear .It creates a story or picture that grabs you.”
John Hollander (1929–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Rhythm and repetition of sounds, words and phrases make spoken poetry sound different to ordinary discourse.”
John Hollander (1929–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Reading a poem aloud by someone who understands it, can be a crucial experience, but better yet is reading it aloud oneself.”
John Hollander (1929–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Reciting a poem aloud, you are not like an actor, rather you come to understand, then to be, the voice of the poem itself.”
John Hollander (1929–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The more you understand a poem and its complexities and depth, the more you will be able to do when reading it aloud.”
John Hollander (1929–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Central also to reading verse aloud is the handling of enjambment, ..the interplay of line-end and sentence-flow.”
John Hollander (1929–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Contrastive stress is very important in English, as poems are full of invisible italicised contrasts of this kind.”
John Hollander (1929–2013) first seen 1996 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: introduction-John Hollander ed.'Committed to Memory' Riverhead Books New York 1996
“Not being a philosopher I've had to work through my feelings and puzzlements in poems.”
John Hollander (1929–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A teacher (of poetry) has to know and feel what poetry is , and be able - and this is crucial- to read it aloud effectively.”
John Hollander (1929–2013) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 'A Conversation with John Hollander' (by email) by Paul Devlin vol 1 St. John's University Humanities Review April 2003
“I revise very little. I always write in long hand and revise when I type. I test them out when I read them aloud.”
John Hollander (1929–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Inspiration comes within a framework. A poem that gets out of hand is not a poem.”
John Hollander (1929–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I usually seem to finish a poem when I write it down. I may have been carrying the notion around in my head.”
John Hollander (1929–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I find free verse very, very difficult to write.”
John Hollander (1929–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Great poems are all fables about life.”
John Hollander (1929–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ultimately poetic thought is interpretive.”
John Hollander (1929–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You can teach the writing of verse..like prose..an instrument..and the recognition of true poetry. The rest, writers must teach themselves.”
John Hollander (1929–2013) first seen 1985 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with J D McCarthy 'The Art of Poetry' no 35 Fall 1985
“Metre is to rhythm as eye is to ear.”
John Hollander (1929–2013) first seen 1975 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 'Vision and Resonance:Two senses of Poetic Form' OUP London 1975
“English Prosody has tended to be a subject for cranks.”
John Hollander (1929–2013) first seen 1977 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Derek Attridge 'Review of 'Vision and Resources' MLR vol.72 no 3 July 1977
“The warfare between poetry and philosophy certainly started with Plato, who was both poet and philosopher.”
John Hollander (1929–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Major poetry not only 'employs' metaphor, irony and other tropes (and is of them) but always and explicitly or implicitly considers the nature of the trope itself.”
John Hollander (1929–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For the poet, the biblical sense of 'know' is as much part of nature as the heat of fire, and in the cognative sense as much a given phenomonen as the brightness itself.”
John Hollander (1929–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The large (in English) unphilosophical, 'poetic' or 'religious' questions are elicited from their precise and technical microcosms.”
John Hollander (1929–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One crosses the brink of literalness into poetry by desiring , noticing, fixing on something and wondering what to make of it.”
John Hollander (1929–2013) first seen 1980 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Review of 'Stanley Cavell and the Claim to Reason' Critical Inquiry, vol 6, no 4 Summer 1980 U of C P
“'Poetic form' is a very deep matter that covers much more than phonological or typological pattern.”
John Hollander (1929–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Poetic form, as we know it, is an abstraction from, or residue of musical form.... The ghost of oral poetry never vanishes...all poetry was originally oral.”
John Hollander (1929–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The study of rhetoric distinguishes between tropes, or figures of meaning such as metaphor and metonymy, and schemes, or surface patterns of words. Poetry is a matter of trope; and verse, of scheme or design.”
John Hollander (1929–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The blueprints of verse can be used to build things made of literal, or nonpoetic material, which is why most verse is not poetry.”
John Hollander (1929–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The building blocks of poetry itself are elements if fiction -fable, 'image', metaphor-all the material if the nonliteral.”
John Hollander (1929–2013) first seen 1981 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 'Rhyme's Reason':a guide to English Verse Yale University Press, 1981
“Very few writers of verse can read their work to keep their listeners aware of the beauty of sense, that sense of beauty from the powerful , delicate ways in which sense is made by poetry.”
John Hollander (1929–2013) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 'Poetry' September 1995
“We and the trees and the way Back from the fields of play Lasted as long as we could No more walks in the wood”
John Hollander (1929–2013) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Extract-last verse from 'An Old Fashioned Song' in 'Tesserae and other poems' (1993)
“Winter wields only the spades, Summer brandishes Hot, black clubs, Spring shower hearts about and Autumn shows A fall of diamonds in our climate of extremes”
John Hollander (1929–2013) first seen 1983 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Extract from 'Powers of Thirteen'(1983)