Quotes by Bellow, Saul

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if yo >>

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, >>

Any artist should be grateful for a naïve grace which puts him beyond >>

Quotations about Poetry and Poets

Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand >>

Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting. >>

If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money. >>

The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in America has been ascribed by our rebels to the horrible squareness of our institutions, the idiocy of power, the debasement of sexual instincts, and the failure of writers to be alienated enough. The poems and novels of these same rebellious spirits, and their theoretical statements, are grimy and gritty and very boring too, besides being nonsensical, and it is evident by now that polymorphous sexuality and vehement declarations of alienation are not going to produce great works of art either.

Bellow, Saul