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“Campion is a poet who knows that what a poet sees is nothing without a mixture of formal prowess and emotional insight.”

Knows Emotional Poet Insight Formal Mixtures Prowess

Author:David Biespiel

“My theory is that poems are written because of a state of emotional irritation. It may be present for some time before the poet is conscious of what is tormenting him. The emotional irritation springs, probably, from subconscious combinations of partly forgotten thoughts and feelings. Coming together, like electrical currents in a thunder storm, they produce a poem. ... the poem is written to free the poet from an emotional burden.”

Source: Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale

“Poetry examines an emotional truth. It's an experience filtered through the personality of the poet. We look to poetry for visions, not scientific truths. The poet's job is to combine new elements. Explore their melting, seeping into one another.”

Looks Jobs Poetry Vision Emotional Poet Personality Elements Melting Scientific Truth

Book:Claiming Breath

Source: Claiming Breath

“The difference between prose logic and poetic thought is simple. The logician uses words as a builder uses bricks, for the unemotional deadness of his academic prose; and is always coining newer, deader words with a natural preference for Greek formations. The poet avoids the entire vocabulary of logic unless for satiric purposes, and treats words as living creatures with a preference for those with long emotional histories dating from mediaeval times. Poetry at its purest is, indeed, a defiance of logic.”

Source: Some speculations on literature, history, and religion

“I wrote a great deal of verse. In fact, every time I fell in love, which was rather often, I burst into the emotional sort of thing which is perennially salable.”

Facts Poetry Deals Emotional Poet Verses

Book:A woman of fifty

Source: A woman of fifty

“The horrors have made the legend of Mandelstam and are inevitably the lens through which we read his work and life. But if there had been no Stalin and no purge, Mandelstam still would have been a poet of severe emotional and existential extremity.”

Ifs Has Beens Made Stills Emotional Poet Horror Legends Existential Severe Lenses Extremity Work And Life

Author:Christian Wiman