P Quotes
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“Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language via rhythm, syntax, image and metaphor. Reading it-the best of it-can create another, very different kind of perpetual present, an awareness that can be as ongoing in the soul as the stop-time of trauma.”
“Poetry springs from something deeper; it's beyond intelligence.”
“Poetry such as "Puerto Rican Obituary" highlights another significant aspect of movement thought: the shift from cultural shame to ethnic pride. Unlike earlier critiques of prejudice and discrimination, movement rhetoric and writings often focused on the emotional and psychic damage of racism, exploring the need to overcome internalized shame and self-hate.”
Source: The Trouble with Unity: Latino Politics and the Creation of Identity
“Poetry surprises us with what we already know.”
Source: Who Is Ozymandias?: And other Puzzles in Poetry
“Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.”
Source: Complete letters: with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence
“Poetry takes you into the recesses of the language, the neglected corners, cracks and crannies and to the big sky of wonder. It opens the door to a critique without which you have rather boring analytical tools by comparison. To cultivate poetry means to stay with it. Not to abandon hope, but to abide.”
“Poetry teaches us how to live in a world in which none of us belongs.”
“Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.”
“Poetry teaches us things that cannot be learned in prose, such as certain kinds of irony or the importance of the unsaid. The most important element of any poem is the part that is left unsaid. So the poetry frames the experience that lies beyond naming.”
“Poetry that emerges from a poet’s mind becomes complete only when it enters into the reader’s sphere of comprehension.”
Source: भारत शाश्वत आवाज [Bharat Shashwat Aawaz]
“Poetry to me is prayer.”
“Poetry today is easier to write but harder to remember.”
“Poetry, today, is struggling for its space. Poets are writing poems. Readers are not reading poems. Other poets are reading other poets’ poems. They seldom like or appreciate what others write. Poetry, therefore, has turned itself into an unresolving cycle of paradox!”
“Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.”
Source: Joyful Christian
“Poetry transcends the nation-state. Poetry transcends government. It brings the traditional concept of power to its knees. I have always believed poetry to be an eternal conversation in which the ancient poets remain contemporary, a conversation inviting us into other languages and cultures even as poetry transcends language and culture, returning us again and again to primal rhythms and sounds.”
“Poetry translation is like playing a piano sonata on a trombone.”
Source: Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World
“Poetry uses language to create a music borne inside human experiences and emotions.”
“Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold.”
Source: Claiming Breath
“Poetry wakes us up”
“Poetry wants to make things mean more than they mean, says someone, as if we knew how much things meant, and in what unit of measure.”
“Poetry was not meant to be a workhorse; it was not designed to paint pretty moral pictures of life; it was not brought into being to confuse us with cryptograms, or high platitudes, or pompous pretensions. The poet was meant to be a seer; he was designed to run toward the intensities and magnificences of life, to bathe his hands in reality. But where the mystic ran toward Reality in silence and lost himself in it, the poet as soon as he had experienced it, ran back toward humanity crying the good news and putting it into shimmering webs of words.”
Source: How to Improve Your Personality by Reading
“Poetry was syllable and rhythm. Poetry was the measurement of breath. Poetry was time make audible. Poetry evoked the present moment; poetry was the antidote to history. Poetry was language free from habit.”
Source: The Impostor
“Poetry was the maiden I loved, but politics was the harridan I married.”
“Poetry which owes no man anything, owes nevertheless one debt -
an image of the world in which men can again believe.”
“poetry which she loved rather as it might be assumed a cat loves birds; poetry, especially the declamatory sort, excited and possessed her; she would pounce on the stuff, play with it quivering in her mind”
“Poetry will absorb and transmute, as it always has done, and glorify, all that we can know.”
“Poetry will exist as long as there is a problem of life and death”
“Poetry without music may be beautiful, but music gives poetry wings and elevates it into song. That may be the reason for our love of song-it has wings and lifts us; with proper songs, it is a nourishing spiritual exercise.”
“Poetry without truth, is like a rose without thorns.
Still pretty,
But sometime the real beauty comes from the things that can make us bleed.”
“Poetry won't cure my grief, but it helps.”
Source: The loneliness of the Fox
“Poetry won’t solve the dilemma of whether you die.
It only solves the dilemma of whether you live—and how.”
Source: The Life · The Wound · The Love
“Poetry Writes The Poet (The Sonnet)
The best poets are the ones,
Who don't know how to write poetry.
Just like the best scientists are those,
Who practice science as everyday curiosity.
The more you focus on the definition,
The more you lose touch with the essence.
That is why I never know what my work is about,
To explain love is to lose love's fragrance.
Painting of a landscape is not the landscape itself,
Depiction must never be confused with the depicted.
I don't know how to do small talk, hence the sonnets.
Poet doesn't write poetry, poetry writes the poet.
The moment I think I am in control, I lose all control.
Craving no control, the river just nourishes the soul.”
Source: Corazon Calamidad: Obedient to None, Oppressive to None
“Poetry' is what distinguishes the cubist paintings Picasso and I arrived at intuitively from the lifeless sort of painting those who followed us tried, with such unfortunate results, to arrive at theoretically.”
“Poetry's a mere drug, Sir.”
“Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.”
“Poetry's magic lies in the imagery which satifies even without interpretation..it is accepted as easily as it was created.”
“Poetry's medium is not merely light as air, it is air: vital and deep as ordinary breath.”
“Poetry's object is truth.”
“Poetry's role is to provide spontaneous individual candor as distinct from manipulation and brainwash.”
“Poetry's task is to increase the available stock of reality, R P Blackmur said.”
“Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day, or Warren's blackin' or Rowland's oil, or some o' them low fellows; never you let yourself down to talk poetry, my boy.”
“Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day.”
“Poetry's work is not simply the recording of inner or outer perception; it makes by words and music new possibilities of perceiving”
Source: Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World
“Poetry's work is the clarification and magnification of being.”
“Poetry, a speaking picture to teach and delight.”
“Poetry, above all is a series of intense moments its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing
with emotion.”
“Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.”
“Poetry, and the principle of Self, of which money is the visible incarnation, are the God and the Mammon of the world.”
Source: A defence of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the Athenians. Preface to the Banquet of Plato. The banquet
“Poetry, at all times, exercises two distinct functions: it may reveal, it may unveil to every eye, the ideal aspects of common thingsor it may actually add to the number of motives poetic and uncommon in themselves, by the imaginative creation of things that are ideal from their very birth.”
“Poetry, at least the kind I write, is written out of immediate need; it is written out of pain, joy, and experience too great to be borne until it is ordered into words. And then it is written to be shared.”