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“When you depart from standard usage, it should be deliberate and not an accidental lapse. Like a poet who breaks the rules of poetry for creative effect, this only works when you know and respect the rule you are breaking. If you have never heard of the rules you are breaking, you have no right to do so, and you are likely to come off like a buffoon or a barbarian. Breaking rules, using slang and archaic language can be effective, but it is just as likely to give you an audience busy with wincing.”

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Author:N.D. Wilson

“20th century poetry is a piñata. Images break from the earth when the poet strikes it.”

Earth Poetry Break Century Poet Strikes Poetry Is 20th Century

Author:Diane Glancy

“The poet's discourse can be compared to the track of a charged particle through a cloud-chamber. An energised field of association and connotation, of overtones and undertones, of rebus and homophone, surround its motion, and break from it in the context of collision .. in Western poetry so much of the charged substance is previous poetry.”

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Author:George Steiner

“O heart, be at peace, because Nor knave nor dolt can break What's not for their applause, Being for a woman's sake.”

Heart Poetry Opinion Break Poet Sake Public Opinion Applause Knaves

Book:Selected Poems And Four Plays

Source: Selected Poems And Four Plays

“A lot of artists start out as failed poets, then move on to being failed short-story writers before they finally break through to the big time and become failed novelists.”

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Author:Gary Reilly

“I should think that many of our poets, the honest ones, will confess to having no manifesto. It is a painful confession but the art of poetry carries its own powers without having to break them down into critical listings. I do not mean that poetry should be raffish and irresponsible clown tossing off words into the void. But the very feeling of a good poem carries its own reason for being... Art is its own excuse, and it’s either Art or it’s something else. It’s either a poem or a piece of cheese.”

Thinking Should Mean Art Reason Feelings Break Pieces Honest Poet Art Is Painful Excuse Critical Carrie Void Confession Cheese Clown Irresponsible Manifestos

Book:On Writing

Source: On Writing

“Italian is a very different poetic situation and there are these hard and fast rhythmic periods, settenari, ottonari of seven and eight syllables. These are fundamental to the way people speak and write and breaking them is more radical in Italian than when we break a line. I'm sure there are Italian poets who want to write poetry as prose and break these Petrarchan rules. And breaking them is fun and a valid thing to do. But I'm more interested in trying to write poetry that absorbs tradition and uses it in new ways, and doesn't throw it out.”

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Author:Jonathan W. Galassi