Octavio Paz
[Poet and writer, b. 1914, Mexico City, d. 1998, Mexico City.]
Photos:
time dangling from a verbal thread
Black mountain
white cloud,
Girl selling birds
time dangling from a verbal thread
Black mountain
white cloud,
Girl selling birds
Frank Horvat
[Photographer, b. 1928, Abbazia, Italy, now Opatija, Croatia, lives in Paris.]
To me, photography is not just a visual art, but something closer to poetry—or at least to some poetry, such as the haiku.
Luc Delahaye
[Photographer, b. 1962, Tours, France, lives in Paris.]
What you want to be is a poet…. To voice the real and at the same time create an image that is a world in itself, with its own coherence, its autonomy and sovereignty; an image that thinks.
Walt Whitman
[Writer and poet, b. 1819, South Huntington, Long Island, New York, d. 1892, Camden, New Jersey.]
You road I enter upon and look around, I believe you are not all that is here,
I believe that much unseen is also here.
I believe that much unseen is also here.
W.H. Auden
[Poet and writer, b. 1907, York, North Yorkshire, England, d. 1973, Vienna, Austria.]
The steady eyes of the crow and the camera’s candid eye
See as honestly as they know how, but they lie.
See as honestly as they know how, but they lie.
Robert Adams
[Photographer and writer, b. 1937, Orange, New Jersey, lives in Astoria, Oregon.]
Photography and poetry both center on metaphor.
Sylvia Plath
[Poet, b. 1932, Boston, Massachusetts, d. 1963, London.]
It is best to meet in a cul-de-sac,
A palace of velvet
With windows of mirrors.
There one is safe,
There are no family photographs,
No rings through the nose, no cries.
A palace of velvet
With windows of mirrors.
There one is safe,
There are no family photographs,
No rings through the nose, no cries.
Robert Doisneau
[Photographer, b. 1912, Gentilly, Val-de-Marne, France, d. 1994, Montrouge, France.]
The photographer must be absorbent—like a blotter, allow himself to be permeated by the poetic moment... His technique should be like an animal function... he should act automatically.