Need help finding a specific quote about poetry.

[swag]

Somebody in college told me that (a famous poet, I'm not certain but may have been Dylan Thomas, though that doesn't seem quite right) once defined poetry as "remarks made on the way to the grave."

Anybody got a lead on this, what the exact quote is and who said or wrote it? Thanks in advance.

[Debi]

1. Here's a link to several quotes..

http://www.gardendigest.com/poetry/quoap1.htm

Poetry is just the evidence of life.
If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
- Leonard Cohen



:shrug:


On edit:

Here you go

http://quote.robertgenn.com/auth_search.php?authid=1218

bottom of the page :hi:

[swag]

3. You so kick ass!

[Debi]

5. So Sweet

unfortunately AOL Search kicks ass - I just type words like "poetry quotes by Dylan Thomas" :hi:

[swag]

9. I guess my search string has been bad for years.

I think the term "remarks" always got in my way.

You are a master searcher.

[redqueen]

2. ...

Poetry. I like to think of it as statements made on the way to the grave.
—Dylan Thomas

[swag]

4. You are wonderful!

[redqueen]

7. You are easy to please!

Let's have sex!

[swag]

8. Okay!

[Debi]

10. Hey, wait a sec....

I get a thanks and redqueen gets sex?? :grr:

[swag]

11. Heya,

but she made the suggestion and it was a good one.

[fudge stripe cookays]

12. I'm on the phone to your wife right now...

You know swag, you're not as anonymous as you think you are.

:P

[swag]

14. Oh my goodness.

I find your behavior somewhat threatening.

I might have to get a restraining order on you.

[fudge stripe cookays]

15. he he

What's worse, I'm looking at jobs in Portland so I can stalk you up close and personal!

:D

[begin_within]

6. Here's a better one anyway...

"A poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it (he will have some several causations), by way of the poem itself to, all the way over to, the reader. . . . the poem itself must, at all points, be a high energy-construct and, at all points, an energy-discharge."

- Charles Olson, "Projective Verse" (1950 essay)

[El Fuego]

13. Office email - remarks about your meaningless existence made on the way to the grave.