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“Poetry often encourages readers to pause and contemplate the human condition, morality, and the world around them. It prompts introspection and deep thinking, fostering intellectual and emotional growth.”
Source: Simple Essays: Unlocking the Power of Concise Expression
“Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.”
Source: Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person
“Poetry often explores universal themes and experiences such as love, loss, nature, identity, and the human condition. These themes resonate across cultures and time periods, making poetry a timeless art form that can connect people from different backgrounds.”
Source: Simple Essays: Unlocking the Power of Concise Expression
“Poetry often invites introspection and deep thinking, offering a space for self-reflection and personal growth.”
Source: Simple Essays: Unlocking the Power of Concise Expression
“Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew.”
“Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended, and surprising at last with an unexpected catastrophe.”
Source: The Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds
“Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended, and surprising at last with an unexpected catastrophe. The painter's art is more confined, and has nothing that corresponds with, or perhaps is equivalent to, this power and advantage of leading the mind on, till attention is totally engaged. What is done by Painting, must be done at one blow; curiosity has received at once all the satisfaction it can ever have.”
Source: The Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds
“Poetry originated as a form of vocal music.”
Source: Poetry as Enchantment
“Poetry ought to be a by-product of living, and you can't have a by-product unless you've got a product first.”
Source: Crossing to Safety
“Poetry picks us up at the edge of brokenness, adds billowy clouds and sunny skies to all that was gray. Suddenly, the soul starts waking, for the depths start shaking in a life-giving laughter.”
“Poetry, playing with your words until you breathe life into them.”
“Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.”
“Poetry provides a unique and powerful medium for individuals to express their emotions, thoughts, and experiences.”
Source: Simple Essays: Unlocking the Power of Concise Expression
“Poetry provides a unique platform for individuals to express their deepest emotions, thoughts, and experiences.”
Source: Simple Essays: Unlocking the Power of Concise Expression
“Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.”
“Poetry reaches into places in us that we are suppose to ignore or mistrust, that are perceived as subversive or non-useful, in what is fast becoming known as global culture.”
“Poetry reading is the chamber music of the actor's craft.”
Source: Grace
“Poetry recognizes the mysterious relationship between dream and reality.”
Source: Poetry as Enchantment
“Poetry relishes ripe fruit - but ripe is one thing and overripe quite another. That's something poetry doesn't like, so it couldn't care less if I were to fall overripe to the ground.”
“Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.”
Source: Seven Nights
“Poetry reminds us of the truths about life and human nature that we knew all along, but forgot somehow because they weren't yet in memorable language.”
Source: Deep Play
“Poetry reproduces an indefinable mood that is more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting, as she is here in Virgil.”
Source: Complete Essays
“Poetry requires deliberate movement in its direction, a filament of faith in its persistence, receptivity to its fundamental worthwhileness. Within its unanesthetized heart there is quite a racket going on. Choices have to be made with respect to every mark. Not every mistake should be erased. Nor shall the unintelligible be left out. Order is there to be wrenched from the tangles of words. Results are impossible to measure. A clearing is drawn around the perimeter as if by a stick with a nail on the end.”
“Poetry resonates differently in each culture; it doesn't in America.”
“Poetry restores language by breaking it, and I think that much contemporary writing restores fantasy, as a genre of writing in contrast to a genre of commodity or a section in a bookstore, by breaking it. Michael Moorcock revived fantasy by prying it loose from morality; writers like Jeff VanderMeer, Stepan Chapman, Lucius Shepard, Jeffrey Ford, Nathan Ballingrud are doing the same by prying fantasy away from pedestrian writing, with more vibrant and daring styles, more reflective thinking, and a more widely broadcast spectrum of themes.”
“Poetry reveals that there is no empty space.”
“Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, reviews the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the springtime of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human mature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and softest feelings, and through the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold on the future life.”
“Poetry saves what is human in this world going gaudy & insane. In exploring small truths, something larger might turn up, adding dimension, insight, vision, recognition to our lives. We just might be more complete, more aware after a poem.”
Source: Claiming Breath
“Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it.”
“Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.”
Source: Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil
“Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.”
“Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.”
“Poetry serves as a cultural repository, preserving the history, values, and traditions of a society.”
Source: Simple Essays: Unlocking the Power of Concise Expression
“Poetry serves as a powerful means of communication, artistic expression, and cultural preservation.”
Source: Simple Essays: Unlocking the Power of Concise Expression
“Poetry serves as a powerful means of communication, artistic expression, and cultural preservation. It has the ability to evoke emotions, inspire change, and bring people together through the beauty of language and shared human experiences.”
Source: Simple Essays: Unlocking the Power of Concise Expression
“Poetry serves one
as a shaman’s drum
or a church choir—
preparing the soul
for its quiet, luxurious feast.”
Source: Names of the Kingdom
“Poetry, Shakespeare and opera, are like mumps and should be caught when young. In the unhappy event that there is a postponement to mature years, the results may be devastating.”
“POETRY SHAPES MY GENDER.”
Source: I'm the Man Who Loves You
“Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.”
“Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.”
“Poetry should be Salty, Bloody and Gone!”
Source: Salty, Bloody & Gone: Myths the Sea Spat Out
“Poetry should be vital--either stirring our blood by its divine movements or snatching our breath by its divine perfection. To do both is supreme glory, to do either is enduring fame.”
Source: Obiter Dicta ...: Carlye. On the alleged obscurity of Mr. Browning's poetry. Truth-hunting. Actors. A rogue's memoirs. The via media. Falstaff [by George Radford
“Poetry should be written the way adultery is committed: on the run, on the sly, during the time not accounted for. And then you come home, as if nothing ever happened.”
“Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the instrument of transferance.”
“Poetry should describe itself, and always be simultaneously poetry and the poetry of poetry.”
“Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.”
“Poetry should only occupy the idle.”
“Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.”
“Poetry simultaneously addresses our intellect and our physical senses, our emotions, imagination, intuition, and memory without asking us to divide them.”
Source: Poetry as Enchantment
“Poetry speaks most effectively and inclusively (whether in free or formal verse) when it recognizes its connection - without apology - to its musical and ritualistic origins.”