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“Say what some poets will, Nature is not so much her own ever-sweet interpreter, as the mere supplier of that cunning alphabet, whereby selecting and combining as he pleases, each man reads his own peculiar lesson according to his own peculiar mind and mood.”

Men Mind Poet Sweet Please Lessons Mere Mood Peculiar Cunning Alphabet Combining Interpreter Suppliers

Book:Pierre; or The Ambiguities

Source: Pierre; or The Ambiguities

“The modern poet has no essential alliance with regular schemes of any sorts.He reserves the right to adapt his rhythm to his mood, to modulate his metre as he progresses. Far from seeking freedom and irresponsibility (implied by the unfortunate term free verse) he seeks a stricter discipline of exact concord of thought and feeling.”

Feelings Term Progress Modern Poet Discipline Essentials Seeking Mood Rhythm Verses Reserves Schemes Unfortunate Alliances Thoughts And Feelings Implied Irresponsibility Free Verse

Author:Herbert Read

“It was not the purpose of poetry to record anything and everything, to merely describe either the outer world or some subjective mood, but to speak from the imagination of the poet to the imagination of the reader.”

World Purpose Speak Imagination Records Poet Reader Mood Subjective Outer Worlds Anything And Everything

Author:Kathleen Raine

“Poetry reproduces an indefinable mood that is more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting, as she is here in Virgil.”

Love Beautiful Poetry Alive Poet Illusion Mood Naked Venus Amorous Indefinable

Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

“For nothing keeps a poet In his high singing mood Like unappeasable hunger For unattainable food.”

Poet Singing Hunger Mood Unattainable

Book:Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems

Source: Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems

“It seems to me a purely lyric poet gives himself, right down to his sex, to his mood, utterly and abandonedly, whirls himself roundtill he spontaneously combusts into verse. He has nothing that goes on, no passion, only a few intense moods, separate like odd stars, and when each has burned away, he must die.”

Giving Seems Poetry Dies Passion Stars Sex Poet Goes On Mood Intense Odd Burned Verses

Author:D. H. Lawrence

“There are ancient and modern poems which breathe, in their entirety and in every detail, the divine breath of irony. In such poemsthere lives a real transcendental buffoonery. Their interior is permeated by the mood which surveys everything and rises infinitely above everything limited, even above the poet's own art, virtue, and genius; and their exterior form by the histrionic style of an ordinary good Italian buffo.”

“I want each poem to be ambiguous enough that its meaning can shift, depending on the reader's own frame of reference, and depending on the reader's mood. That's why negative capability matters; if the poet stops short of fully controlling each poem's meaning, the reader can make the poem his or her own.”

Enough Poet Negative Mood Capability Ambiguous

Author:James Arthur