Frank Lloyd Wright on poetry

I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

Robert Frost1874–1963

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

T. S. Eliot1888–1965“Philip Massinger”, a biographical essay, in The Sacred Wood (1920)

Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.

C. S. Lewis1898–1963Reflections on the Psalms