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“Writing poetry is talking to oneself; yet it is a mode of talking to oneself in which the self disappears; and the product's something that, though it may not be for everybody, is about everybody.”

Writing May Self Talking Products Oneself Disappear Poetry Is Writing Poetry

Author:Richard Wilbur

“I had no one to help me, but the T. S. Eliot helped me. So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or that it shouldn’t be read at school because it is irrelevant, or any of the strange stupid things that are said about poetry and its place in our lives, I suspect that the people doing the saying have had things pretty easy. A tough life needs a tough language – and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers – a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn’t a hiding place. It is a finding place.”

“Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.”

Giving Beautiful Poetry Dangerous Illusion Poetry Is Beautiful Poetry

Author:Rumi

“I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry, and bad poets publish it. Thankfully I gave up rather quickly.”

Thinking Age Certain Poet Poetry Is Good Life Fifteen Publish Gave Up Sixteen Masturbation Later In Life

Author:Umberto Eco

“Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.”

Force Known Destruction Thrive Poetry Is Association Imagery Analogies

Author:Antonin Artaud

“Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion. To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain.”

Reason Results Accepting Sea Exercise Crosses Infinite Mysticism Poetry Is Sane Strain Finite Floats Exhaustion

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The purpose of the poetry is not to dazzle us with an astonishing thought, but to make one moment of existence unforgettable and worthy of unbearable nostalgia.”

Moments Purpose Existence Worthy Nostalgia Poetry Is Unbearable Astonishing Unforgettable Dazzle

Author:Milan Kundera

“Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.”

Life Made Poetry Animal Air Sea Land Poet Scripts Barriers Poetry Is Going Away Rainbow Journal Living On Phantoms Syllables

Author:Carl Sandburg

“Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.”

Poetry Walks Journey Walking Dancing Dance Wander Prose Poetry Is Hiking Trekking Strolling Sauntering

Author:Paul Valery

“Poetry is not efficient. If you want to learn how to cook a lobster, it’s probably best not to look to poetry. But if you want to see the word lobster in all its reactant oddity, its pied beauty, as if for the first time, go to poetry. And if you want to know what it’s like to be that lobster in the pot, that’s in poetry too.”

Ifs Knows Want Firsts Looks First Time Cooks Poetry Is Pot Efficient Lobster Oddities

Book:The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction

Source: The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction

“Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea.”

Made Ideas Sound Visuals Prose Poetry Is Bewitched

Book:The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy

Source: The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy

“Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.”

Simple Beauty Taken Reader Granted Poetry Is Revealing Mind Blowing Greatest Poetry

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.”

World Way Firsts Art First Time Poetry Is

Author:W. S. Merwin

“It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.”

Thinking Men Years Five College Five Years Poetry Is Graduation College Education Funny Commencement Inspirational High School Graduation Convocation

Book:Once Around the Sun

Source: Once Around the Sun

“Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.”

Writing Political Poetry Clothes Sunday Poetry Is Best Poetry

Author:Philibert Joseph Roux

“Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.”

Heart Poetry Poet Poetry Is Poetic Great Poet Great Poetry Poetry And Music Poetry By Poets Heart Strings Heartstrings

Author:Dennis Gabor

“Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.”

Writing Poetry Animal Air Sea Land Poet Poetry Is Journal Living On Great Poet Great Poetry Poetry By Poets Greatest Poetry

Book:The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

“Poetry is an act of peace.”

Poetry Poetry Is

Book:Memoirs

Source: Memoirs

“Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.”

Ideas Together Poetry Language Emotion Poet Ordinary Tough Skins Raised Poetry Is Delicate Reading Poetry Poetry By Famous Poets Poetry By Poets Poetry Reading Tough Skin

Author:Paul Engle

“The poet is the priest of the invisible.”

Poetry Poet Invisible Priests Poetry Is Great Poetry Poetry By Poets

Author:Wallace Stevens

“Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.”

Men Poetry Language Poetry Is Amazement Predicaments Great Poetry Prose And Poetry

Book:The Early Days

Source: The Early Days

“Poetry is frosted fire.”

Poetry Fire Poetry Is

Author:J. Patrick Lewis

“Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.”

Poetry Bird Poetry Is Frontiers New Frontiers

Author:Yevgeny Yevtushenko

“I think that were beginning to remember that the first poets didn't come out of a classroom, that poetry began when somebody walked off of a savanna or out of a cave and looked up at the sky with wonder and said, "Ahhh." That was the first poem.”

Thinking Firsts Said Remember Poetry Wonder Sky Poet Poetry Is Classroom Caves Savanna

Author:Lucille Clifton

“Writing poetry is a state of free float.”

Writing States Poetry Poetry Is Floats Writing Poetry

Book:Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood

Source: Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood

“Poetry is important. No less than science, it seeks a hold upon reality, and the closeness of its approach is the test of its success.”

Important Reality Poetry Approach Tests Poetry Is Closeness

Author:Babette Deutsch

“Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling. A fine poem will seize your imagination intellectually - that is, when you reach it, you will reach it intellectually too - but the way is through emotion, through what we call feeling.”

Way Feelings Poetry Imagination Emotion Fine Approach Poetry Is

Author:Muriel Rukeyser

“Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen.”

Way Poetry Communication Constant Poetry Is Openness Flexibility Readiness

Author:Fleur Adcock

“Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.”

Poetry Revelations Poetry Is Elegance

Book:The Third Kind of Knowledge: Memoirs & Selected Writings

Source: The Third Kind of Knowledge: Memoirs & Selected Writings

“Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement... says heaven and earth in one word... speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time.”

Men Firsts Earth Poetry Speak Language Heaven First Time Poetry Is One Word Heaven And Earth Amazement Predicaments

Author:Christopher Fry

“Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.”

Writing Hard Poetry Imagination Labor Poetry Is Manuals Writing Poetry Manual Labor

Book:Airing Dirty Laundry

Source: Airing Dirty Laundry

“The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.”

Thinking Feels Poetry Office Poetry Is

Book:Life, Letters, Lectures, and Addresses

Source: Life, Letters, Lectures, and Addresses

“Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on the cat.”

Ifs Writing Trying Poetry Certain Cat Fishes Poetry Is Stale

Author:Osbert Sitwell

“Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.”

Writing Poetry Invisible Poetry Is Keepsakes

Book:Harvest Poems: 1910-1960

Source: Harvest Poems: 1910-1960

“For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.”

Poetry Wind Paint Colour Poetry Is

Author:Maxwell Bodenheim

“Poetry is all nouns and verbs.”

Poetry Language Poetry Is Verbs Nouns

Author:Marianne Moore

“The poem . . . is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.”

Men Writing May Littles Ends Light Poetry Capacity Myth Meaningful Meaning Of Life Poetry Is Meaningful Life Life Means Great Poetry What Is Poetry

Author:Robert Penn Warren

“Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.”

Poetry Can Do Written Poetry Is Great Poet Writing Poetry Great Poetry What Is Poetry

Author:Stephen Spender

“All poetry is misrepresentation.”

Poetry Poetry Is Misrepresentation

Book:Utilitarianism ; On Liberty ; Essay on Bentham: Together with Selected Writings of Jeremy Bentham and John Austin

Source: Utilitarianism ; On Liberty ; Essay on Bentham: Together with Selected Writings of Jeremy Bentham and John Austin

“Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns.”

Writing Poetry Perfect Poetry Is Hunting Elusive Verbs Nouns

Author:J. Patrick Lewis

“Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.”

Poetry Shapes Prose Poetry Is Bent

Author:J. Patrick Lewis

“I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is contemplated till, by a species of reaction, the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was before the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, and does itself actually exist in the mind.”

Mind Doe Said Feelings Poetry Powerful Emotion Subjects Species Disappear Reactions Contemplation Poetry Is Spontaneous Kindred Overflow Tranquillity

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Poetry is itself a thing of God; He made his prophets poets; and the more We feel of poesie do we become Like God in love and power,-under-makers.”

Feels Made Poetry Poet Prophet Poetry Is Makers

Book:Festus: a poem

Source: Festus: a poem

“By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman, or the charlatan. In other words, it forfeits its own evolutionary potential. For what distinguishes us from the rest of the animal kingdom is precisely the gift of speech. Poetry is not a form of entertainment and in a certain sense not even a form of art, but it is our anthropological, genetic goal. Our evolutionary, linguistic beacon.”

Art Form Poetry Certain Goal Animal Failing Poet Politician Speech Entertainment Kingdoms Poetry Is Inferiors Doom Salesman Beacons Forfeit Charlatans Articulation Animal Kingdom

Author:Joseph Brodsky

“No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.”

Men Humans Poetry Passion Language Emotion Poet Profound Philosopher Poetry Is Fragrance Great Poet Human Thought Human Knowledge Poetry By Famous Poets

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“If you examine the highest poetry in the light of common sense, you can only say that it is rubbish; and in actual fact you cannot so examine it at all, because there is something in poetry which is not in the words themselves, which is not in the images suggested by the words 'O windy star blown sideways up the sky!' True poetry is itself a magic spell which is a key to the ineffable.”

Ifs Facts Light Poetry Stars Common Magic Sky Keys Highest Common Sense Poetry Is Spells Rubbish Sideways Ineffable Windy

Book:Eight Lectures on Yoga

Source: Eight Lectures on Yoga

“Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.”

Humans Mother Poetry Race Tongue Human Race Poetry Is Mother Tongue

Book:Writings on Philosophy and Language

Source: Writings on Philosophy and Language

“The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.”

Poetry Essence Surprise Delight Invention Unexpected Poetry Is Something Unexpected

Book:The lives of the most eminent English poets, with critical observations on their works

Source: The lives of the most eminent English poets, with critical observations on their works

“Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.”

Knows Writing Remember Poetry Pleasure Poetry Is Making Love Writing Poetry

Book:This Business of Living

Source: This Business of Living

“Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal but which the reader recognizes as his own.”

Inspirational Believe Feelings Poetry Poet Reader Revelations Poetry Is Interiors Great Poetry Poetry By Famous Poets

Author:Salvatore Quasimodo

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