Showing posts with label Clyde Kilby. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Clyde Kilby. Show all posts

Thursday, March 24, 2011

What Poetry Does

“Poetry makes the half man whole by saying the things which he feels but cannot say.”

~Clyde Kilby, Poetry and Life (New York, Odyssey Press, 1953), p. 3 via here

"The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say."

~GK Chesterton