John Hollander Professions : PoetBorn : October 28, 1929Died : August 13, 2013 Browse All Authors Top 6 quotes by John Hollander A long project is like a secret houseguest, hidden in your study, waiting to be fed and visited. John Hollander secretwaitinglong To understand John Hollander spacestarsneeds We speak of memorizing as getting something 'by heart,' which really means 'by head.' But getting a poem or prose passage truly 'by heart' implies getting it by mind and memory and understanding and delight. John Hollander heartmemoriesmean Poetry gets to be the poetry of life by successfully becoming first the poetry of poetry. John Hollander poetryartfirsts When Adam found his rib was gone John Hollander ribsresentmentgone Geoffrey Hill may be the strongest and most original English poet of the second half of our fading century, although his work is by no means either easy or very popular. Dense, intricate, exceedingly compact, his poetry has always had great visionary force. John Hollander fadingvisionariesmean Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poetAll Authors
