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“Poetry is something I love to do. Good poetry has an amazing ability to be communicative before it's even understood. I get emotional just from the beauty of words.”

Ability Emotional Understood Poetry Is Good Poetry

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“Poetry ... is the music and painting of the mind.”

Mind Poetry Painting Poetry Is

Author:Sonia Orwell

“Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.”

Want Writing Hardest Poetry Is Hardest Thing

Author:Steve Earle

Mean Ideas Philosophy Whole Character Age Teaching Example Youth Particular Bears Aim Embrace Old Age Related Poetry Is Phenomenon Conception Platonic

Book:The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 3 of 3)

Source: The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 3 of 3)

“The element of craftsmanship in poetry is obscured by the fact that all men are taught to speak and most to read and write, while very few men are taught to draw or paint or write music.”

Men Writing Facts Speak Taught Elements Draws Paint Poetry Is Craftsmanship

Author:W. H. Auden

“My mother - my stepmother, really, she herself have been what they call an elocutionist. And she was the one who first encouraged me to write poetry, because she used to read it to us. And then when I began to write when I was nine years old, my first poem was published in the Amsterdam News. I called it "The Graveyard."”

Writing Years Firsts Has Beens Used Mother News Nine Poetry Is Graveyard Nine Years Amsterdam Stepmothers

Author:Ruby Dee

“Good religious poetry... is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.”

Religious Poetry Is Appreciated

Author:A. E. Housman

“Never let the mud puddle get lost in the poetry because, in many ways, the mud puddle is the poetry.”

Way Lost Poetry Is Mud Puddles Mud Puddles

Author:Valerie Worth

“The poem began with the title. Then I was annoyed by one of the occasional poetry-is-dead articles. Then I refute that notion.”

Notion Titles Poetry Is Articles Occasional Annoyed

Author:Thomas Lux

“The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.”

Giving Mind Ends Memories Pleasure Conditions Effects Constant Poetry Is Insistence

Author:Laura Riding

“Poetry is what happens when an anxiety meets a technique.”

Happens Anxiety Technique Poetry Is

Author:Lawrence Durrell

“The function of poetry is to point out that the sign is not identical to the referent.”

Art Poetry Function Poetry Is Identical

Book:To honor Roman Jakobson: Essays on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, 11 October 1966

Source: To honor Roman Jakobson: Essays on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, 11 October 1966

“The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.”

Writing Art Ends Poetry Poetry Is

Book:Selected poetry and prose

Source: Selected poetry and prose

“The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay ... More and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us.”

Art Poetry Turns Race Destiny Mankind Goes On Worthy Poetry Is Immense Console Time Goes On

Book:Poetry and Criticism of Matthew Arnold

Source: Poetry and Criticism of Matthew Arnold

“Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation.”

Way Humans Art Poetry Offers Highest Standards Operations Poetry Is Human Experience Concise Conveying

Book:On Grief And Reason: Essays

Source: On Grief And Reason: Essays

“The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.”

Art Poetry Primaries Poetry Is Pigment

Book:Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts

Source: Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts

“Poetry is language in orbit.”

Art Poetry Language Poetry Is Orbit

Book:Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971 - 2001

Source: Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971 - 2001

“Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.”

Art Poetry Mountain News Poetry Is Echoes Unicorn

Author:Czeslaw Milosz

“Eloquence is heard; poetry is overheard ... All poetry is of the nature of the soliloquy.”

Art Poetry Heard Poetry Is Eloquence

Book:Autobiography, and Other Writings

Source: Autobiography, and Other Writings

“Poetry is a satifying of the desire for resemblance.”

Art Desire Poetry Poetry Is Resemblance

Author:Wallace Stevens

“Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.”

Art Poetry Break Meetings Invisible Visible Poetry Is Point Break

Book:Our Lady of the Flowers

Source: Our Lady of the Flowers

“Poetry is a verdict rather than an intention.”

Art Poetry Intention Poetry Is Verdict

Author:Leonard Cohen

“Poetry is that magic which consists in awakening sensations with the help of a combination of sounds ... that sorcery by which ideas are necessarily communicated to us, in a definite way, by words which nevertheless do not express them.”

Way Art Ideas Helping Poetry Sound Magic Awakening Combination Poetry Is Sensations Nevertheless Definite Sorcery

Author:John Banville

“The poem, in a sense, is no more or less than a little machine for remembering itself ... Poetry is therefore primarily a commemorative act.”

Littles Art Remember Poetry Machines Poetry Is

Author:Don Paterson

“Poetry is not the record of an event: it is an event.”

Art Poetry Records Events Poetry Is

Author:Robert Lowell

“I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject.”

Poetry Subjects Poet Poetry Is Wanton Blithe

Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

“O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes, The poets labouring all their days To build a perfect beauty in rhyme Are overthrown by a woman's gaze.”

Dream Eye Poetry Women Perfect Beauty Poet Clouds Poetry Is Pale Rhyme Eyelids Perfect Beauty

Book:The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

“Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.”

Poetry Poet Setting Settings Poetry Is Renewal

Author:Robert Frost

“A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.”

Giving Reason Facts Happens Truth Poetry History Happened Objects Particular Serious Poet Poetry Is

Book:The poetics

Source: The poetics

“Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama depicts life. The characteristic of the first poetry is ingeniousness, of the second, simplicity, of the third, truth.”

Source: The Works of Victor Hugo ...

“... the reason why there are so few first-class poets is that many people have intense feelings or first-class minds but to get the two together so that you will be willing to put a poem through sixty drafts, to be that self-critical, to keep breaking it down, that is what is rare. Right now most poetry is just self-indulgence.”

People Mind Firsts Two Self Reason Feelings Together Poetry Class Willing Poet Right Now Critical Intense Reason Why Poetry Is Sixty Indulgence First Class Self Indulgence Intense Feelings

Author:May Sarton

“Poetry is a finikin thing of air That lives uncertainly and not for long Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs.”

Long Poetry Air Poet Poetry Is Blur

Book:The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

“The short story is at an advantage over the novel, and can claim its nearer kinship to poetry, because it must be more concentrated, can be more visionary, and is not weighed down (as the novel is bound to be) by facts, explanation, or analysis. I do not mean to say that the short story is by any means exempt from the laws of narrative: it must observe them, but on its own terms.”

Mean Facts Stories Law Term Fiction Novel Advantage Claims Bounds Narrative Analysis Explanation Poetry Is Short Story Visionaries Kinship

Book:Stories

Source: Stories

“... in a history of spiritual rupture, a social compact built on fantasy and collective secrets, poetry becomes more necessary than ever: it keeps the underground aquifers flowing; it is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.”

Spiritual Spirit Poetry Social Voice Secret Fantasy Poet Built Stones Collectives Poetry Is Liquid Compact Rupture Aquifers

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

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

“As we speak of poetical beauty, so ought we to speak of mathematical beauty and medical beauty. But we do not do so; and that reason is that we know well what is the object of mathematics, and that it consists in proofs, and what is the object of medicine, and that it consists in healing. But we do not know in what grace consists, which is the object of poetry.”

Knows Wells Reason Poetry Speak Healing Beauty Grace Objects Poet Ought Mathematics Medicine Proof Medical Mathematical Poetry Is Mathematical Beauty

Book:Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works

Source: Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works

“Poetry is concerned with using with abusing, with losing with wanting, with denying with avoiding with adoring with replacing the noun. It is doing that always doing that, doing that and doing nothing but that. Poetry is doing nothing but using losing refusing and pleasing and betraying and caressing nouns. That is what poetry does, that is what poetry has to do no matter what kind of poetry it is. And there are a great many kinds of poetry.”

Kind Doe Matter Poetry Poet Losing Concerned No Matter What Great Men Poetry Is Betray Avoiding Doing Nothing Nouns

Book:Writings, 1903-1932: Q.E.D., Three lives, Portraits and other short works, The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

Source: Writings, 1903-1932: Q.E.D., Three lives, Portraits and other short works, The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

“Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.”

Art Poetry Sound Poet Pure Complexes Bounds Symbols Poetry Is Conventional Arbitrary

Author:Ezra Pound

“Poetry is essentially the antithesis of Metaphysics: Metaphysics purge the mind of the senses and cultivate the disembodiment of the spiritual; Poetry is all passionate and feeling and animates the inanimate; Metaphysics are most perfect when concerned with universals; Poetry, when most concerned with particulars.”

Mind Feelings Spiritual Poetry Perfect Poet Concerned Philosophical Passionate Senses Poetry Is Metaphysics Antithesis

Author:Samuel Beckett

“Poetry is the most direct and simple means of expressing oneself in words: the most primitive nations have poetry, but only quitewell developed civilizations can produce good prose. So don't think of poetry as a perverse and unnatural way of distorting ordinary prose statements: prose is a much less natural way of speaking than poetry is. If you listen to small children, and to the amount of chanting and singsong in their speech, you'll see what I mean.”

“The belief in poetry is a magnificent fury, or it is nothing.”

Belief Poetry Is Magnificent Fury

Book:Letters of Wallace Stevens

Source: Letters of Wallace Stevens

“A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.”

Poetry Poet Criticism Mediums Poetry Is Tailors Scissors

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“German poetry is going in a very different direction from French poetry.... Its language has become more sober, more factual. It distrusts "beauty." It tries to be truthful.”

Trying Different Truth Poetry Language Beauty Poet Poetry Is Truthful Sober Distrust Factual Different Directions Being Truthful French Poetry

Book:Collected Prose

Source: Collected Prose

“[My poetry is] a way of coming to grips with reality . . . a way of discovery and definition. It is a way of solving for the unknowns.”

Way Reality Discovery Definitions Poetry Is

Book:Collected Prose

Source: Collected Prose

“The joy of poetry is that it will wait for you. Novels don't wait for you. Characters change. But poetry will wait. I think it's the greatest art.”

Thinking Art Character Joy Waiting Novel Poetry Is Character Change

Author:Sonia Sanchez

“Poetry is very crafted. You can't have too many words. It needs compression. It has to be spare, just the right number of words.”

Needs Numbers Poetry Is Spares Compression

Author:Barbara Feldon

“Reciting poetry isn't acting, it's memory work. Actor's are deceivers. People who pretend to be something else for a living aren't right in the head.”

People Actors Memories Acting Poetry Is Deceiver Reciting

Author:Hetty King

“Ho Kyuns poetry is in the tradition of his master, the incomparable Tu Fu, while remaining fully his own. Writing nine centuries later, Hos poetry strikes many parallels--the experiences of war and exile and constant struggle-- and his voice is similarly humane. This is rich and enlightening reading.”

Writing War Reading Voice Struggle Rich Century Masters Tradition Constant Strikes Nine Poetry Is Exile Parallels Humane Enlightening Incomparable Constant Struggle

Author:Sam Hamill

“For Aliki Barnstone, poetry seems a natural medium. The vision and cadences of these poems suggest a sensibility for which poetry is as inevitable as breathing or eating.”

Seems Natural Vision Eating Mediums Inevitable Breathing Poetry Is Sensibility Cadence

Author:Robert Pinsky

“The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child.”

Children Ideas Poetry Is Guessing

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

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