This is the manifesto of my poetics
- Poetry is the language of a soul.
- One ought to write only of and about oneself. In other words, write what you verily mean. For poets, compromising honesty is death.
- Technical mastery should not be confused with your soul.
- Always revise for the best. It can always be better.
- Be lonely or be vulgar. [Schopenhauer]
- Poetry is the final literature.
- “Wait patiently until it comes burst out of you.” [Rainer Maria Rilke]
- Write as short as possible. Don’t dilute it.
- Write as beautifully as possible. It is the representation of your beauty.
- “Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.” [Franz Kafka]
- “Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul” [W. Somerset Maugham]
- Write as if each word is a yell.
- Condense it, for “brevity is the soul of wit” [W. Shakespeare]
- Use metaphor responsibly
- “Thus a poem is tough by no quality it borrows from a logical recital of events nor from the events themselves but solely from that attenuated power which draws perhaps many broken things into a dance giving them thus a full being.” [William Carlos Williams, Kora in Hell]
- (for monostich) Your thought, that singular idea, can be expressed in a sentence to the finest degree.
- “The hardest thing is to make something really true and sometimes truer than true” [Ernest Hemingway]
- “I know there is a worm in the human heart” [Jon Anderson, John Clare]
- A compilement of moments observed deeply without being wordy.
- Never write what you don’t know. Never.
- “Language is power… Language can be used as a means of changing reality. You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.” [Adrienne Rich]
- Language is the music of mind. How one speaks (accent, cadence, etc) individually form a unique melody.
- Amou fou means mad love.
- As a writer, I cannot cross my conscience by standing with majority
- Juan Ramon Jimenez: “시란 여명의 이슬 한 방울”
- Stay raw. Never polished
- What’s the story, morning glory? -Oasis-
- Keep it real
- “She held his head above the water, and then the waves carry them whither they pleased.”
- Do it anyway
- “Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.” [Emil Cioran]
- Ars longa, vita brevis
- “The modern writer (scriptor) is born simultaneously with his text; he is in no way supplied with a being which precedes or transcends his writing, he is in no way the subject of which his book is the predicate; there is no other time than that of the utterance, and every text is eternally written here and now.” [Roland Barthes, The Death of the Author]
- 저자의 죽음이란 대가를 치뤄야 비로 독자의 탄생이 시작된다.
- “My whole theory of writing I can sum up in one sentence. An author ought to write for the youth of his generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward” [F. Scott. Fitzgerald ]
- Poetry is a fine dining for the connoisseurs of emotions
- Writing poetically is an exorcism (transplantation) of inner personalities into metaphoric language of permanence. Emptying oneself is clearly the end of creativity.
- A poem is a collection of honest thoughts and feelings in impression
- “Thus a poem is tough by no quality it borrows from a logical recital of events nor from the events themselves but solely from that attenuated power which draws perhaps many broken things into a dance giving them thus a full being.” [William Carlos Williams, Kora in Hell]
- “Poetry Fetter’d, Fetters the Human Race. Nations are Destroy’d, or Flourish, in proportion as The Poetry, Painting, and Music, are Destroy’d or Flourish.” [William Blake]
- “To love the existence of the object more than the object itself, and existence more than oneself: that is Acmeism’s supreme commandment” [Osip Mandelstam, a Russian Acemeist poet]
- “A writer is a world trapped in a person” [Victor Hugo]
- A poem ought to contain a certain element of love if not love itself. A poem without love, even if possible, is ugly.
- I write my poem as if each poem is an unique establishment of a particular emotion, the emotions that were unexplored, unexperienced by me. My poetry is my journal for my sentimental journey called life. I am embracing myself to the fullest to the birth of a poem. Laboring. What is it if writing is not an act of laboring?
- Artistic creation is just paying an homage to the Creator
- There is one unforgivable sin to a poet. That is insulting his poetic spirit.
- 글을 쓴다는 것은 의식의 순간을 영구화하는 과정이다. 그것은 창조의 그림자같은 것이다. 나는 하루에도 수 백, 수 천번이나 생각에 생각의 꼬리를 물고 곧 잊어버린다. 그것이 비극이다. 우린 글로써 잠깐 이 땅에 존재했음을 증명할 수 있는 것이다. 그리고 우린 자신이 쓴 글조차 때론 생경할 때가 있다.
- 국민 교과서에 실려도 좋을만한 글을 쓰자
- The two principles of Sylvia Sharpentier are anonymity and authenticity
- 나의 시에서 예수를 발견하지 못했다면 당신은 나의 시를 읽은 것이 아니다.
