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“At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, as in the Bible, for instance, or Homer or Shakspeare. I see he covertly or plainly likes best superb verbal polish, or something old or odd”

Ifs Knows Feels Has Beens Poetry Highest Likes Instance Odd Poetry Is Polish Doubtful Superb

Author:Walt Whitman

“Political poetry is more profoundly emotional than any other-at least as much as love poetry-and cannot be forced because then it becomes vulgar and unacceptable. It is necessary first to pan though all other poetry in order to become a political poet.”

Firsts Political Order Emotional Poet Poetry Is Vulgar Love Poetry

Author:Pablo Neruda

“Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be fully uttered, and sometimes like dancing and wordless music.”

Needs Sometimes Conversation Dancing Phrases Intimate Prose Poetry Is Halfway Intimate Conversation

Author:Gilbert Highet

“Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music.”

Writing Poetry Mathematics Poetry Is

Author:John Steinbeck

“No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.”

Thinking Writing Years Book Real Shows Written Style Twenties Real Life Poetry Is Conventions Life Style Good Poetry

Book:Pavannes and Divisions

Source: Pavannes and Divisions

“I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.”

Believe Made Order My Own Late My Family Patterns Useless Poetry Is

Author:Anne Stevenson

“That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.”

Facts Natural Objects Poetry Is Literal Assertion Artifice Rhetorical Wordsworth

Book:The Works of Walter Pater: Essays from 'The Guardian.'

Source: The Works of Walter Pater: Essays from 'The Guardian.'

“Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes a soundless cymbal, a belfry without a bell.”

Madness Mood Poetry Is Bells Lacking Whim Lighters Cymbals

Book:The works

Source: The works

“Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.”

Men Matter Desire Courses Appeals Unconscious Poetry Is Intensity Completeness Universality

Book:The Lyric: An Essay

Source: The Lyric: An Essay

“To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential.”

Knows May Poet Concerned Poetry Is Entertaining Delightful

Book:The Lyric: An Essay

Source: The Lyric: An Essay

“A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be.”

People Thinking Should Writing Seems Next Pay Great Men Poetry Is Worthwhile Writing Poetry

Author:Mark Strand

“Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.”

Writing Happens Creative Program University Department Poetry Is Creative Writing

Author:Mark Strand

“Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.”

Firsts Lasts Language Poetry Is Firsts And Lasts Fillers

Author:Mark Strand

“And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.”

Form Culture Given Written Materials Comfort Offers Entertainment Poetry Is Surprising Gratification Immediate Gratification

Author:Mark Strand

“I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality.”

Thinking Poet Personality Resources Triumph Poetry Is Defects Exploits American Poetry Best American

Author:Mark Strand

“We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of loss, and the more wearing, continuous pain of frustration and failure; and have had moods of unlooked-for release and peace. They have known and watched in themselves and others.”

Has Beens Pain Poetry Literature Loss Known Poet Mood Tyranny Release Frustration Poetry Is

Author:Elizabeth Drew

“Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.”

Way Should Reading Written Poet Destroyed Poetry Is Worth Reading Veneration Dead Poets

Book:The Theater and Its Double

Source: The Theater and Its Double

“One thing I feel is this: that a great deal of poetry is the product of adolescence-or of an emotionally adolescent frame of mind: and that as this state of mind changes, poetry is likely to dry up.”

Feels Mind States Deals One Thing Products Dry Poetry Is State Of Mind Adolescence Frame Of Mind Dry Up

Author:James Agee

“Poetry is a perfectly reasonable means of overcoming chaos.”

Mean Poetry Overcoming Chaos Reasonable Poetry Is

Author:I. A. Richards

“Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.”

Writing Looks Poetry Is

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.”

Writing Believe Different Stories Seems Form Spirit I Believe Novel Poetry Is Short Story

Author:Tobias Wolff

“Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.”

Art Pieces Ready Paper Poetry Is Pencils

Author:Eugenio Montale

“I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.”

Ifs Writing Humans Said Real Reality Political House Deals Poet Sitting Drinking Response Glasses Tea Poetry Is Glass Houses Drinking Tea

Author:Yehuda Amichai

“I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that.”

Thinking Years Use Literature Language Interesting Poet Exciting Complexes Poetry Is Most Interesting Great Poet Great Poetry Yeats

Author:Diane Wakoski

“The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.”

Poet Importance Poetry Is

Author:Mahmoud Darwish

“My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.”

Teacher Definitions Poetry Is

Author:Thom Gunn

“Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will.”

Ifs Years Art Grows Students Arms Subtle Poetry Is Ducks Collapse Avoiding Jane Ingenious Blake Austen Milton Literary Art

Author:Terry Eagleton

“Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.”

Needs Essence Poetry Is

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.”

May Poetry Literature Poetry Is Imperfect Precise Geometry True You

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.”

Poetry Is Precise Geometry

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“Poetry is a totally different art than film.”

Art Different Film Poetry Is

Author:Stan Brakhage

“Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.”

Art Imagination Symbols Most Powerful Poetry Is

Author:William C. Bryant

“If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.”

Ifs Fall Species Poetry Is Epic Definite Saga Epic Poetry Epic Poems

Author:Lascelles Abercrombie

“Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak first from me to myself and then from me to you.”

Want Writing Firsts Speak Intimate Poetry Is

Author:Ellen Bass

“Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.”

Different Numbers Very Good Traditional Poetry Is Angle Iranian Different Angles

Author:Asghar Farhadi

“Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.”

Writing Book Prose Poetry Is Book Writing Diversion

Author:Jerry B. Jenkins

“Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.”

Knows Years Realizing Poetry Is Good Poetry

Author:Richard Hell

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