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“Poetry is a sequence of dots and dashes, spelling depths, crypts, cross-lights, and moon wisps.”

Light Moon Crosses Depth Poetry Is Sequence Dots Spelling Wisps Creating Beauty

Book:The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

“Perhaps the author cited is one of those, who, shunning the practice of the world, have taught the world to shun return! whose poetry is too finely spun, whose philosophy is too and mystified for popular demand: perhaps we have experienced feeling which Mr. Wordsworth alludes to, in a poem worthy of simplicity and loneliness of the sentiment "Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure; Sighed to think I read a book Only read perhaps by me!”

Thinking World Book Philosophy Feelings Pleasure Practice Loneliness Taught Return Demand Lonely Simplicity Worthy Poetry Is Sentiments Spun Wordsworth Shunning

Author:Samuel Laman Blanchard

“I have always disliked the idea of an arts ghetto in which poetry is kept on a life-support system.”

Art Ideas Support Poetry Is Ghetto Support Systems

Author:Tony Harrison

“American poetry is always about defining oneself individually,claiming one's right to be different and often to break taboos.”

Different Literature Break Oneself Poetry Is Defining Taboo American Poetry

Author:Diane Wakoski

“Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms and the latter longer ones, gut this is only in part true.”

Ideas Form Literature Differences Students Western Former Guts Latter Poetry Is

Book:Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn

Source: Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn

“The music that really moves me is music that's written by people where there isn't a lot of money and they're really singing with just their voice and a guitar about their feelings and about their life. Their poetry is relatively simple, in the sense that it's about their soul in jeopardy.”

People Soul Feelings Moving Voice Simple Written Singing Guitar Poetry Is Lots Of Money Jeopardy

Author:Anton Yelchin

“Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.”

Important Done Whole Found Important Things Whole Life Poetry Is

Author:Donald Hall

“I write lyrics everyday as I go. I'm always taking notes in my phone whenever I am inspired by something. Most of my writing starts out as poetry before I put it into songs.”

Writing Song Notes Inspired Everyday Phones Poetry Is

Author:Vic Fuentes

“Poetry is a diary kept by a sea creature who lives on land and wishes he could fly.”

Wish Sea Land Creatures Poetry Is Diaries

Author:Carl Sandburg

“Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.”

Mind Dream Poetry Morning Poetry Is Great Minds

Book:Memoirs of Celebrated Characters

Source: Memoirs of Celebrated Characters

“I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable.”

Thinking May Poetry Greed Poetry Is

Book:Selected Letters

Source: Selected Letters

“All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart.”

Heart Poetry Poetry Is Great Poet Great Poetry

Author:Edith Sitwell

“Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion.”

Poetry Divine Comfort Breathe Poetry Is

Author:William Wordsworth

“Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.”

Kind Music Genius Music Is Instinct All Kinds Poetry Is Sublime

Book:Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida

Source: Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida

“Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold.”

Teach Materials Ordinary Gold Poetry Is Alchemy

Author:Anais Nin

“Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.”

Poetry Born Journey Painful Regions Poetry Is

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Poetry is the eloquence of verse.”

Poetry Poetry Is Verses Eloquence

Author:William C. Bryant

“Poetry is enthusiasm with wings of fire; it is the angel of high thoughts, that inspires us with the power of sacrifice.”

Poetry Fire Sacrifice Inspire Angel Wings Enthusiasm Poetry Is

Book:Autobiographical and political

Source: Autobiographical and political

“Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.”

School Form Poetry Education Teach Subjects Poetry Is

Book:Conversations with Nikki Giovanni

Source: Conversations with Nikki Giovanni

“Boston: Their hotels are bad. Their pumpkin pies are delicious. Their poetry is not so good.”

Hotel Poetry Is Pie Delicious Boston Pumpkin Pumpkin Pie

Book:The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 1

Source: The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 1

“Poetry is easier to learn than prose. Once you have learned it you can use it as a light and a laser. It shows up your true situation and it helps you cut through it.”

Helping Use Shows Light Poetry Situation Cutting Easier Prose Poetry Is Lasers

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“What's important about poetry in the context of leadership is that most of the time, power has to do with dominance. But poetry is never about dominance. Poetry is powerful but it cannot even aspire to dominate anyone. It means making a connection. That's what it means.”

Mean Important Poetry Powerful Connections Poetry Is Aspire What's Important Dominance

Author:June Jordan

“Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious.”

Men Poetry Existence Poetry Is Harmonious

Book:Critical & Miscellaneous Essays: Collected & Republished

Source: Critical & Miscellaneous Essays: Collected & Republished

“Poetry is evidently a contagious complaint.”

Poetry Poetry Is Complaints Contagious

Book:The Works of Washington Irving: Tales of a traveller

Source: The Works of Washington Irving: Tales of a traveller

“poetry ... is another way to be hurled straight into the heart of God.”

Way Heart Poetry Poetry Is Another Way

Book:Inspirational Writings of Marjorie Holmes Deluxe Jacketed Edition

Source: Inspirational Writings of Marjorie Holmes Deluxe Jacketed Edition

“I cannot understand why poetry is not taught at schools as a way of seeing, a quick, untiring path to essentials.”

Way School Path Seeing Taught Essentials Poetry Is

Author:May Sarton

“poetry is first of all a way of life and only secondarily a way of writing.”

Way Writing Firsts Poetry Is

Author:May Sarton

“Poetry is a dangerous profession between conflict and resolution, between feeling and thought, between becoming and being, between the ultra-personal and the universal - and these balances are shifting all the time.”

Feelings Dangerous Becoming Balance Conflict Universal Profession Poetry Is Resolution Shifting Ultras

Author:May Sarton

“For poetry is, I believe, always an act of the spirit. The poem teaches us something while we make it. The poem makes you as you make the poem, and your making of the poem requires all your capacities of thought, feeling, analysis, and synthesis.”

Believe Feelings Spirit I Believe Teach Capacity Analysis Poetry Is Synthesis

Author:May Sarton

“One of the springs of poetry is joy.”

Joy Spring Poetry Is

Book:Writings on Writing

Source: Writings on Writing

“Poetry is the breath of beauty.”

Poetry Breaths Poetry Is

Book:Fiction and matter of fact. Inside of an omnibus. Day of the disasters of Carlington Blundell. Visit to the zoological gardens. A man introduced to his ancestors. Novel party. Beds and bedrooms. World of books. Jack Abbott's breakfast. On seeing a pigeon make love. Month of May. The Giuli tre. Few remarks on the cure vice called lying. Criticism on female beauty. Of deceased statesmen who have written verses. Female sovereigns of England

Source: Fiction and matter of fact. Inside of an omnibus. Day of the disasters of Carlington Blundell. Visit to the zoological gardens. A man introduced to his ancestors. Novel party. Beds and bedrooms. World of books. Jack Abbott's breakfast. On seeing a pigeon make love. Month of May. The Giuli tre. Few remarks on the cure vice called lying. Criticism on female beauty. Of deceased statesmen who have written verses. Female sovereigns of England

“Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage.”

Joy Poetry Left Magic Mankind Poetry Is Left Alone

Book:Sketch of the author's life (p. i-ccxxxii) Shades of the dead. Critical essays. Lecture, on the worth of knowledge

Source: Sketch of the author's life (p. i-ccxxxii) Shades of the dead. Critical essays. Lecture, on the worth of knowledge

“Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve music.”

Poetry Achieve Poet Music Is Objectives Poetry Is

Book:Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose

Source: Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose

“The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.”

Art Poetry Passion Sides Virtue Duty Poetry Is

Author:William Cowper

“My 'must-have' was poetry. From the first, life meant that to me. And, fortunately, poetry is not purchasable material, but an atmosphere in which every life may expand. I found it everywhere about me.”

Firsts May Poetry Found Materials Atmosphere Poetry Is Life Means

Book:A New England girlhood

Source: A New England girlhood

“Poetry is the most concentrated form of literature; it is the most emotionalized and powerful way in which thought can be presented.”

Way Form Poetry Literature Powerful Poetry Is

Book:Tendencies in Modern American Poetry

Source: Tendencies in Modern American Poetry

“I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.”

Thinking Poetry Conditions Poet Decent Poetry Is Shelter Health Education Working Conditions

Book:What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)

Source: What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)

“Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past us in a polite blur.”

Past Poetry Poetry Is Flood Polite Telescopes Blur Sample Selective Contingency Distillation

Book:Deep Play

Source: Deep Play

“poetry is where the language is renewed.”

Poetry Language Poetry Is

Author:Margaret Atwood

“we need poetry most at those moments when life astounds us with losses, gains, or celebrations. We need it most when we are most hurt, most happy, most downcast, most jubilant. Poetry is the language we speak in times of greatest need. And the fact that it is an endangered species in our culture tells us that we are in deep trouble.”

Needs Moments Facts Culture Speak Language Hurt Loss Trouble Gains Species Poetry Is Celebration Endangered Species

Author:Erica Jong

“I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.”

Dark Direct Poetry Is Ecstasy

Book:What Do Women Want?: Bread, Roses, Sex, Power

Source: What Do Women Want?: Bread, Roses, Sex, Power

“Poetry is the inner life of a culture, its nervous system, its deepest way of imagining the world. A culture that ignores its poets, chokes off its nervous system and becomes mortally ill.”

World Way Culture Poet Ill Nervous Poetry Is Choke Inner Life Nervous System

Book:Fear of Fifty

Source: Fear of Fifty

“Poetry is fired by love.”

Author:Erica Jong

“My verses are my diary. My poetry is a poetry of proper names.”

Poetry Names Poetry Is Verses Diaries

Author:Marina Tsvetaeva

“Once considered an art form that called for talent, or at least a craft that called for practice, a poem now needs only sincerity. Everyone, we're assured, is a poet. Writing poetry is good for us. It expresses our inmost feelings, which is wholesome. Reading other people's poems is pointless since those aren't our own inmost feelings.”

People Needs Writing Art Feelings Form Reading Practice Talent Poet Crafts Poetry Is Sincerity Assured Pointless Writing Poetry

Book:Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories

Source: Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories

“Poetry is fact given over to imagery.”

Facts Poetry Given Poetry Is Imagery

Author:Rod McKuen

“poetry is the sung voice of accurate perception.”

Poetry Voice Perception Poetry Is Accurate

Author:Patricia Hampl

“Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.”

Poetry Poetry Is Sentiments Apotheosis

Author:Madame de Stael

“Poetry interprets in two ways: it interprets by expressing, with magical felicity, the physiognomy and movements of the outward world; and it interprets by expressing, with inspired conviction, the ideas and laws of the inward world of man's moral and spiritual nature. In other words, poetry is interpretative both by having natural magic in it, and by having moral profundity.”

Men World Way Two Ideas Spiritual Law Poetry Natural Moral Magic Movement Inspired Conviction Poetry Is Inward Two Ways Felicity Profundity Spiritual Nature Physiognomy

Book:Essays in Criticism

Source: Essays in Criticism

“The borderline between prose and poetry is one of those fog-shrouded literary minefields where the wary explorer gets blown to bits before ever seeing anything clearly. It is full of barbed wire and the stumps of dead opinions.”

Literature Bits Opinion Seeing Prose Poetry Is Fog Wire Explorers Borderline Stumps Barbed Wire Minefields Prose And Poetry

Book:Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

Source: Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places