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“Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns.”

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J. Patrick Lewis, born on May 5, 1942, is a renowned American poet. His poetry is known for its unique style and has won the hearts of readers with its wide range of themes, including nature, history, and children's literature. more

“I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is contemplated till, by a species of reaction, the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was before the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, and does itself actually exist in the mind.”

Mind Doe Said Feelings Poetry Powerful Emotion Subjects Species Disappear Reactions Contemplation Poetry Is Spontaneous Kindred Overflow Tranquillity

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“As a guiding principle I believe that every poem must be its own sole freshly created universe, and therefore have no belief n 'tradition' or a common myth-kitty or casual allusions in poems to other poems or poets, which last I find unpleasantly like the talk of literary understrappers letting you see they know the right people.”

People Knows Believe Lasts Poetry Universe Belief I Believe Common Principles Poet Tradition Myth Sole Casual Allusion Kitties Guiding Principles

Author:Philip Larkin

“You must believe: a poem is a holy thing - a good poem, that is. The poem, even a short time after being written, seems no miracle; unwritten, it seems something beyond the capacity of the gods.”

Believe Seems Poetry Written Holy Capacity Miracle Short Time Unwritten

Author:Theodore Roethke

“The poem is a plank laid over the lion's den.”

Poetry Lions Dens

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“Poetry is itself a thing of God; He made his prophets poets; and the more We feel of poesie do we become Like God in love and power,-under-makers.”

Feels Made Poetry Poet Prophet Poetry Is Makers

Book:Festus: a poem

Source: Festus: a poem

“Poetry must find ways of breaking distance.... all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds.”

Way Made Poetry Language Break Distance Dialect

Book:Yo-yo boing!

Source: Yo-yo boing!

“By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman, or the charlatan. In other words, it forfeits its own evolutionary potential. For what distinguishes us from the rest of the animal kingdom is precisely the gift of speech. Poetry is not a form of entertainment and in a certain sense not even a form of art, but it is our anthropological, genetic goal. Our evolutionary, linguistic beacon.”

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Author:Joseph Brodsky

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