“IN PERSIA I SAW that poetry is meant to be set to music & chanted or sung--for one reason alone--because it works.A right combination of image & tune plunges the audience into a hal (something between emotional/aesthetic mood & trance of hyperawareness), outbursts of weeping, fits of dancing--measurable physical response to art. For us the link between poetry & body died with the bardic era--we read under the influence of a cartesian anaesthetic gas.” ArtReasonBodyAudienceSawsInfluenceEmotionalFitDiedDancingResponseMoodErasCombinationGasTunesPoetry IsLinksMeant To BeAestheticWeepingPlungeTranceOutburstPersia Author:Hakim
“The statement of ideas in a poem may have to do with logic. More profoundly, it may be identified with the emotional progression of the poem, in terms of the music and images, so that the poem is alive throughout. Another, more fundamental statement in poetry, is made through the images themselves those declarations, evocative, exact, and musical, which move through time and are the actions of a poem.” MayMadeIdeasActionMovingTermAliveEmotionalLogicFundamentalsMusicalStatementsPoetry IsDeclarationProgressionRough Times Author:Muriel Rukeyser
“The universe of poetry is the universe of emotional truth. Our material is in the way we feel and the way we remember.” WayFeelsRememberPoetryUniverseEmotionalMaterialsPoetry Is Author:Muriel Rukeyser
“But it's silly to suggest the writing of poetry is something ethereal, a sort of soul-crashing, devastating emotional experience that wrings you. I have no fancy ideas about poetry. ... It doesn't come to you on the wings of a dove. It's something you have to work hard at.” WritingIdeasSoulHardPoetryEmotionalHard WorkWingsSillyFancyPoetry IsDoveEthereal Book:Journey around my room: the autobiography of Louise Bogan : a mosaic Source: Journey around my room: the autobiography of Louise Bogan : a mosaic
“Poetry is something I love to do. Good poetry has an amazing ability to be communicative before it's even understood. I get emotional just from the beauty of words.” AbilityEmotionalUnderstoodPoetry IsGood Poetry Author:Daniel Radcliffe
“Poetry is the most informative of all of the arts because everything comes down to poetry. No matter what it is we are describing, ultimately we use either a metaphor; or we say "that's poetry in motion." You drink a glass of wine and say, "that's poetry in a bottle." Everything is poetry, so I think we come down to emotional information. And that's what poetry conveys.” ThinkingArtMatterUseInformationEmotionalDrinkArt IsNo Matter WhatWineMetaphorGlassesPoetry IsBottlesDescribingWine GlassInformative Author:Nikki Giovanni
“Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.” MomentsDiesTurnsFallBornOur LivesEmotionalBabyFalling In LoveBelovedPoetry IsBeloved Friends Author:Erica Jong