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“Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility... It insists on living its own life.”
“Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.”
“Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as that of science; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more and more fugitive causes. In the truly great poets... there is a reason assignable, not only for every word, but for the position of every word.”
Source: Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions
“Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.”
Source: Occasional, Critical, and Political Writing
“Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. It speaks of what seems fantastic and unreal to those who have lost the simple intuitions which are the test of reality; and, as it is often found at war with its age, so it makes no account of history, which is fabled by the daughters of memory.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)
“Poetry, far more than fiction, reveals the soul of humanity.”
Source: Tendencies in Modern American Poetry
“Poetry, for example, goes so deeply into the space between corporeal affect and deep emotion (even primal in some cases) that, as Emily Dickinson said, it can blow the top of your head off. Poetic language is sometimes misunderstood as "abstract" when in reality, it's precise - precisely the language of emotions and the body.”
“Poetry, for me, conveys the essence of narrative rather than its particulars.”
“Poetry, for me, is the answer to, 'How does one stay sane when private lives are being ransacked by public events?' It's something that hangs over your head all the time.”
“Poetry, from describing external events objectively, is becoming subjectified into a poetry of personal conscious expression.”
Source: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
“Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline, you've got to go so far, so fast, in such a small space that you've just got to turn away all the peripherals.”
“Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far, so fast, in such a small space, that you've got to burn away all the peripherals.”
“Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams.”
Source: Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems, 1965-1990 Complete
“Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.”
“Poetry, I thought then, and still do, is a matter of space on the page interrupted by a few well-chosen words, to give them importance. Prose is a less grand affair which has to stretch to the edges of the page to be convincing.”
Source: Auto da Fay: A Memoir
“Poetry, I'm often told, is something made of words. I think it really goes the other way around: words are made of poetry.”
“Poetry, I'm returning to it, never leaves me. It's my genre completely. In poetry I contemplate myself exuberantly. It's my unique strength. Force of gravity, electric and magnetic energy; in my own way, to make a synthesis.”
“Poetry, in the entire course of its development, has always been trying to capture meanings and problems which are still obscure and dormant. Poetry tries to awaken them with a kiss, wherever they may be: in the air, in things, in human beings.”
“Poetry, in the past, was the center of our society, but with modernity it has retreated to the outskirts. I think the exile of poetry is also the exile of the best of humankind.”
“Poetry, is the insulation that lies between the inner walls of the mind.”
“Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.”
“Poetry, like dreams, will eventually break through every person's consciousness, even the tightest iconoclast's.”
“Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.”
Source: Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
“Poetry, like love, is something we never truly say goodbye to.”
“Poetry, like sanctity, is the orchestration of multiple attributes into vast, compelling wholes.”
Source: The Excesses of God: Robinson Jeffers as a Religious Figure
“Poetry, my dear friends, is a sacred incarnation of a smile. Poetry is a sigh that dries the tears. Poetry is a spirit who dwells in the soul, whose nourishment is the heart, whose wine is affection. Poetry that comes not in this form is a false messiah.”
“Poetry, mythology, and religion represent the world as man would like to have it, while science represents the world as he gradually comes to discover it.”
“POETRY, n. A form of expression peculiar to the Land beyond the Magazines.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“Poetry, Painting & Music, the three Powers in man of conversing with Paradise, which the flood did not sweep away.”
Source: The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake
“Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world.”
“Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.”
“Poetry, song, stories, art, our reverence for nature, are key to our survival as a species, and to the survival of all species, I believe. You can't always extract such emphatic hunches and activist stances from a scientific maxim or mathematical axiom.”
“Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.”
Source: The complete prose of Marianne Moore
“Poetry, the best of it, is lunar and is concerned with the essential insanities. Journalism is solar (there are numerous newspapers named The Sun, none called The Moon) and is devoted to the inessential.”
Source: Still Life with Woodpecker
“Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought.”
Source: Sartor Resartus
“Poetry, unlike music, is a meta-art, and relies upon non-physical structures for the production of its effects. In its case, the medium is syntax, grammar and logical continuity, which together form the carrier-wave of plain sense within which its deeper meanings are broadcast.”
“Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity... but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'.”
“Poetry, when it takes sides, when it proposes solutions, isn't any smarter than anybody else.”
“Poetry, which is our relation to the senses, enables us to retain a living relationship to all things. It is the quickest means of transportation to reach dimensions above or beyond the traps set by the so-called realists. It is a way to learn levitation and travel in liberated continents, to travel by moonlight as well as sunlight.”
“Poetry, which is written while no one is looking, is meant to be looked at for all time.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch
“Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting.”
Source: The Portable Edmund Burke
“Poetry...the deepest abyss of infinity.”
“POETRY: A sliver of the moon lost in the belly of a golden frog.”
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
“Poetry: the best words in the best order.”
“Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley.”
“Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.”
Source: English Literature and Irish Politics
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“Poetry’s medium is the individual chest and throat and mouth of whoever undertakes to say the poem.”
“Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature.”
“Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of our imagination, for our crucial problem has been a lack of conventional means to render our lives believable. This, my friends, is the crux of our solitude.”
Source: Century of the Wind