Poetry Is

“Poetry is a help.” (George Seferis)

“All poetry is experimental poetry.” (Wallace Stevens)

“One reads poetry with one’s nerves.” (Wallace Stevens)

“Poetry is either easy or impossible.” (A.E. Housman)

“A morbid secretion, like the pearl in an oyster.” (A.E. Housman)

“La vie future à l’intérieur de l’homme requalifié.” (René Char)

“Aujourd’hui la poésie ne s’impose pas, elle s’expose.” (Paul Celan)