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“Poetry is my cheap means of transportation, by the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started. I would like him to be slightly disoriented at the end, like I drove him outside of town at night and dropped him off in a cornfield.”

Should Mean Different Ends Night Reader Towns Poetry Is Different Place Transportation Means Of Transportation

Author:Billy Collins

“Poetry is what makes the invisible appear.”

Invisible Poetry Is

Author:Nathalie Sarraute

“Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.”

Firsts Different Written Performances Best Things Poetry Is Provocative

Author:Adrian Mitchell

“Poetry is the fiery index to the genius of the age.”

Age Genius Poetry Is Fiery

Author:Babette Deutsch

“Poetry has its uses for despair. It can carve a shape in which a pain can seem to be; it can give one’s loss a form and dimension so that it might be loss and not simply a hopeless haunting. It can do these things for one person, or it can do them for an entire culture. But poetry is for psychological, spiritual, or emotional pain. For physical pain it is, like everything but drugs, useless.”

“One of the qualities essential to being good at reading poetry is also one of the qualities essential to being good at life: a capacity for surprise. It’s easy to become so mired in our likes or dislikes that we can no longer recall that person who once responded to poems—and to people—without any preconceived notions of what we wanted them to be.”

People Persons Wanted Reading Easy Quality Essentials Capacity Surprise Notion Be Good Likes Poetry Is Dislike Recalls Preconceived Notions Reading Poetry

Author:Christian Wiman

“He who writes poetry is not a poet. He whose poetry has become his life, and who has made his life his poetry - it is he who is a poet.”

Writing Made Poet Poetry Is

Author:Subramanya Bharathi

“Anna Journey, in her new book of poems, Vulgar Remedies, creates an alchemical self whose shimmering limbic / alembic lyrics distill the mysterious terrors of childhood, the dangerous passions of adults, into her own honey-dusk 'voodun': protective, purified to gold. Poetry is always a time machine: here we are invisible travelers to a bewitched past, a beautifully occluded future. These poems are erotic, vertiginous, revelatory, their dazzling lyric force reflecting profound hermetic life.”

“For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.”

Littles Humour Poet Trade Experiments Poetry Is Cynicism

Author:Edward Dowden

“Poetry is a rhythmical piece of writing that leaves the reader feeling that life is a little richer than before, a little more full of wonder, beauty, or just plain delight.”

Writing Littles Feelings Life Is Wonder Pieces Reader Delight Poetry Is

Author:Aileen Fisher

“Poetry is the art of using language to transcend language.”

Art Poetry Language Poetry Is

Author:Laurence Overmire

“Rural poetry is the pleasure ground of those who live in cities.”

Pleasure Cities Poetry Is

Book:The parting light: selected writings of Samuel Palmer

Source: The parting light: selected writings of Samuel Palmer

“Poetry is a necessity of life.”

Poetry Is

Book:Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil

Source: Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil

“Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.”

Art Fine Excellence Hardest Chiefs Poetry Is Fine Arts

Book:VICTORIAN POETS

Source: VICTORIAN POETS

“I have tried to remember throughout that poetry is made by flesh-and-blood human beings. It is a bloody art. It lives on a human scale and thrives when it is passed from hand to hand.”

Humans Art Made Hands Remember Human Beings Blood Flesh Scales Thrive Poetry Is Bloody Flesh And Blood

Author:Edward Hirsch

“Poetry is not a code to be broken but a way of seeing with the eyes shut.”

Way Eye Seeing Broken Code Poetry Is

Author:Linda Pastan

“Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.”

Mediums Revolutionary Poetry Is

Author:Susan Griffin

“Poetry is priceless.... a way of keeping yourself feeling rich and civilized even when you're quite poor.”

Way Feelings Poor Rich Poetry Is Civilized Priceless

Author:Marie Ponsot

“I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people.”

People Humans Happens Activity Normal Concern Poetry Is Human Activity

Book:Tuppenny stung: autobiographical chapters

Source: Tuppenny stung: autobiographical chapters

“The true subject of poetry is the loss of the beloved.”

Loss Subjects Beloved Poetry Is

Author:Faiz Ahmad Faiz

“Poems infatuated with their own smarts and detached from any emotional grounding can leave the reader feeling lonely, empty and ashamed for having expected more. Like icy adolescents, such poetry is more interested in commiserating than acknowledging that feelings — the sentiments that make us susceptible to sentimentality — actually exist.”

Feelings Emotional Reader Smart Lonely Empty Expected Ashamed Poetry Is Sentiments Detached Sentimentality Susceptible Feeling Lonely Icy Grounding Infatuated

Author:Tracy K. Smith

“So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us.”

Thinking I Can Might Term Distance Visuals Poetry Is

Author:Tracy K. Smith

“Poetry being an attempt to express, not the common sense, - as the avoirdupois of the hero, or his structure in feet and inches, - but the beauty and soul in his aspect . . . runs into fable, personifies every fact. . . .”

Soul Facts Running Common Beauty Feet Hero Aspect Structure Common Sense Poetry Is Inches Fables

Author:Marsilio Ficino

“Poetry is not the opinion stated. It is a song that appears instead of a bloody wound or a smiling mouth.”

Song Opinion Mouths Wounds Poetry Is Bloody Inspiring Love

Author:Khalil Gibran

“I think it was T.S. Eliot who talked about good poetry being felt before it’s understood. I believe that. There are some bands where I love their lyrics but I don’t have a clue what they’re on about.”

Thinking Believe I Believe Felt Band Understood Poetry Is Clue Eliot Good Poetry

Author:Marcus Mumford

“I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.”

Believe Language I Believe Limits Tradition Poetry Is Formal

Book:The Weather of Words: Poetic Invention

Source: The Weather of Words: Poetic Invention

“Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.”

Language Destiny Speech Poetry Is Poetic Newness

Author:Gaston Bachelard

“Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.”

Self Impossible Poet Redemption Poetry Is

Author:Salvatore Quasimodo

“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.”

Ifs Knows Feels Writing Poetry Taken Poet Poetry Is Emily Great Poet Great Poetry Poetry By Famous Poets Poetry By Poets Greatest Poetry

Author:Emily Dickinson

“Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were”

Creativity Creation Poetry Is Counterfeit

Book:The Works of John Donne, D.D., Dean of Saint Paul's, 1621-1631: With a Memoir of His Life

Source: The Works of John Donne, D.D., Dean of Saint Paul's, 1621-1631: With a Memoir of His Life

“Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.”

Poetry Poetry Is Barbaric

Book:Selected Writings

Source: Selected Writings

“If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up. But poetry is a really strong, beautiful form to me, and a lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.”

Ifs America Beautiful Form Language Strong Innovation Bars Poetry Is Beaten

Author:Jim Jarmusch

“Creativity is the result of a struggle between vitality and form. As anyone who has tried to write a sonnet or scan poetry, is aware, the form ideally do not take away from the creativity but may add to it.”

Writing May Form Results Creativity Struggle Add Poetry Is Vitality Sonnet

Book:Love & Will

Source: Love & Will

“Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.”

Consciousness Revolution Brilliant Rebellion Poetry Is

Book:The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way

Source: The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way

“We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a certain position of the mind from where life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future... cease to be perceived in a contradictory sense.'”

Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

“So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was and is and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality... If poetry is your goal, you've got to forget all about punishments and all about rewards and all about self-styled obligations and duties and responsibilities etcetera ad infinitum and remember one thing only: that it's you - nobody else - who determine your destiny and decide your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else... There's the artist's responsibility; and the most awful responsibility on earth.”

“Poetry is the ultimate democracy.”

Democracy Ultimate Poetry Is

Author:Brendan Kennelly

“Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn’t know what else to be.”

Knows Writing Poetry Is Writing Poetry

Author:Alice Notley

“Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of”

Funny Grows Childhood Habit Poetry Is Nasty

Author:Tom Holt

“Charles Bernstein's pairs of jingles of 'public discourse' are 'simultaneous double narrative / the space between's the other narrative/as if they're opposite.' In the space between, outside representation but in the 'presence' of it, we are provoked to laugh. Bernstein alters our language to open a double range that's public and mind at once and inseparable, that is 'Poetry is patterned thought in search of unpatterned mind.' Girly Man is doing it.”

Ifs Men Mind Language Space Laughing Opposites Narrative Range Pairs Poetry Is Representation Discourse Inseparable Space Between Girly Provoked Simultaneous Public Discourse Jingles

Author:Leslie Scalapino

“I began writing for kids because I wanted to effect a change in American society. I continue in that spirit. By the time we reach adulthood, we are closed and set in our attitudes. The chances of a poet reaching us are very slim. But I can open a child's imagination, develop his appetite for poetry, and more importantly, show him that poetry is a natural part of everyday life. We all need someone to point out that the emperor is wearing no clothes. That's the poet's job.”

“Poetry is much more important than the truth, and, if you don't believe that, try using the two methods to get laid.”

Ifs Trying Believe Two Important Method Don't Believe Poetry Is Getting Laid

Book:The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language

Source: The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language

“To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life.”

Firsts Self Individual Emotional Survival Poetry Is Emotional Life

Author:Gregory Orr

“Poetry is the thread that leads us out of the labyrinth of despair and into the light.”

Light Despair Poetry Is Thread Labyrinth

Author:Gregory Orr

“Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others.”

Inspirational Book Body Poetry Suffering Passion Reading Community Compassion Empathy Your Body Poetry Is Sympathy Reading Books Communion Essayists Communes Eucharistic

Author:Mary Karr

“I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy”

Philosophy Form Contradiction Poetry Is

Author:Czeslaw Milosz

“We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.”

Way Needs Mines Poetry Is

Author:Jack Prelutsky

“Let my name perish, -- the poetry is good poetry and the music is good music, and beauty dieth not, and the heart that needs it will find it.”

Needs Heart Names Music Is Poetry Is Good Poetry

Book:Poems of Sidney Lanier

Source: Poems of Sidney Lanier

“Poetry is the only hopeEven if you do not believe it, you have to do it.”

Ifs Believe Poetry Is

Author:Andrei Voznesensky

“I exaggerate. I oversimplify. I generalize. But there’s no cynicism here. American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.”

Long Mess Poetry Is Cynicism American Poetry

Author:David Biespiel

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