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“Sappho is a great poet because she is a lesbian, which gives her erotic access to the Muse. Sappho and the homosexual-tending Emily Dickinson stand alone above women poets, because poetry's mystical energies are ruled by a hierach requiring the sexual subordination of her petitioners. Women have achieved more as novelists than as poets because the social novel operates outside the ancient marriage of myth and eroticism.”

Giving Energy Social Novel Poet Ancient Myth Access Novelists Muse Mystical Homosexual Erotic Stand Alone Emily Great Poet Subordination

Author:Camille Paglia

“Genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies and animates.”

Energy Quality Poet Cold Genius Judgment Amplify

Book:Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets

Source: Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets

“It has as much to do with the energy released by linguistic fission and fusion, with the buoyancy generated by cadence and tone and rhyme and stanza, as it has to do with the poem's concerns or the poet's truthfulness.”

Energy Poet Concern Tone Rhyme Truthfulness Fusion Cadence Buoyancy Fission

Book:Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996

Source: Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996

“I had to learn that slower is faster. If you practice every day with patience and correctness, you will get there. It's like preparing for a jump. You can't rush. You must summon the appropriate energy with split-second timing and have an understanding of purpose to get up in the air. It requires training, confidence and mental effort. You can't have a vocabulary without the alphabet. Balanchine used to say, "Do you want to be a poet of gesture or do you want to be a physical entity?"”

Ifs Want Used Purpose Energy Understanding Effort Practice Air Poet Training Get Up Faster Appropriate Gestures Splits Timing Entity Preparing Vocabulary Correctness Alphabet Up In The Air

Author:Edward Villella

“I get a huge energy transfusion from listening to poets read their works.”

Energy Poet Huge Listening

Author:Grace Cavalieri

“Part of the pleasure of giving a reading comes from the rapport between the audience and the poet. I don't want to get mystical here, but there's an energy flow that begins with the poet, and the energy goes out to the audience, and they're energized, and then they return that energy to the poet. As someone standing up there alone, facing these people, I can feel that rapport (or its absence).”

People Giving Reading Energy Pleasure Audience Poet Absence Mystical Rapport

Author:Ron Padgett