J.H. Prynne

"For Prynne, the production of a poem, the production of a book, are as much part of the cycles of commercial fetishisation as the creation of the poem itself. So, it is the responsibility of the poet (and reader) to work at diminishing a degree of moral irresponsibility that overshadows the creation and production of art. Which explains why most Prynne works have been available in small print-run pamphlet forms published by presses for whom profit is not a motive." 

John Kinsella: on the poem Rich in Vitamin C by J.H. Prynne

http://jacketmagazine.com/06/pryn-kins.html 

Sigmund Freud

“Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me."


“Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind,
because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.”

 

wounded storyteller

"Through storytelling the wounded are transformed from those who are cared for into those who care for others. They become potent healers. The wounded recover their voice through the difficult act of storytelling. The whole body speaks. Eventually everyone becomes a wounded storyteller. 'It is our promise and responsibility, our calamity and dignity.'

To tell a good enough story, we must go deep enough: this is storytelling as archaeology. We should experience the pull of the future: this is storytelling as eschatology. We should seek a story aesthetically ripe and set in the midst of stories larger than our own: this is storytelling as poetry and myth-making." 

Donald Heinz, 1998, The last passage: Recovering a death of our own, Oxford University Press.