Poetry Quote by Richard K. Morgan — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.”

“Why covet a knowledge of new facts? Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacles. We are far from having exhausted the significance of the few symbols we use. We can come to use them yet with a terrible simplicity.”

“Into my heart an air that kills”

“Born into this”

“Before getting translated, a poem already gets shrunk or expanded within the ‘sphere of intellect’ of the translator in the original language, and it again gets shrunk or expanded within the ‘sphere of intellect’ of the translator in the target language. Thus, in translation of poetry; there exists a possibility of components like imagination, art of wordplay, skill of constructing internal rhythm and expand of knowledge of the poet getting affected by the constraint and differentia of the translator.”

“A reader takes poetry deep within him or her by accommodating it within his/her range of consciousness.”

“I have been the meaning of rape”