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“Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him.”

“My poems are like a dagger Sprouting flowers from the hilt; My poetry is like a fountain Sprinkling streams of coral water.”

Water Flower Streams Poetry Is Fountain Daggers

Author:Jose Marti

“Poetry is the Devil's wine.”

Poetry Devil Wine Poetry Is

Author:Saint Augustine

“Ennius was the father of Roman poetry, because he first introduced into Latin the Greek manner and in particular the hexameter metre.”

Firsts Father Particular Greek Poetry Is Latin

Author:Quintus Ennius

“The whole history of modern poetry is a continuous commentary on the short text of philosophy: every art should become science, and every science should become art; poetry and philosophy should be united.”

Should Art Philosophy Whole Poetry United Modern Poet Philosophical Poetry Is Commentary Modern Poetry

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Since poetry is infinitely valuable, I do not understand why it should be more valuable than this or that which is also infinitelyvaluable. There are artists who perhaps do not think art to be too great, for this is impossible, and yet they are not free enough to be able to rise above their own best accomplishments.”

Thinking Should Art Enough Able Poetry Artist Impossible Poet Valuable Accomplishment Poetry Is Rise Above

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature.”

Poetry Literature Natural Poetry Is Essayists

Author:William Rounseville Alger

“Poetry is the sister of Sorrow. Every man that suffers and weeps is a poet; every tear is a verse, and every heart a poem.”

Men Heart Poetry Suffering Tears Poet Sorrow Every Man Poetry Is Verses

Author:Marc-Andre Fleury

“Poetry is a string of words that parades without a permit.”

Poetry Poetry Is Strings Permit Parades

Author:Linda Hogan

“Poetry is a sleep-maker for that which sits up late in us listening for the footfall of the future on to-day's doorstep.”

Poetry Sleep Listening Late Poetry Is Makers Doorstep

Author:Laura Riding

“Aviation is poetry ... It's the finest kind of moving around, you know, just as poetry is the finest way of using words.”

Knows Way Kind Moving Flying Aviation Poetry Is Finest Using Words

Book:Comedy: American Style

Source: Comedy: American Style

“Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality.”

Self Helping Deals Self Help Decent Poetry Is Mortality Sufi Decent Life

Author:Mohsin Hamid

“Beer is prose. Wine is poetry.”

Wine Beer Prose Poetry Is

Author:Jennifer Rosen

“A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.”

Thinking Art Music Goes On Music Is Poetry Is

Author:W. H. Auden

“I feel that the task of criticizing my poetry is best left to others (i.e. critics) and would much rather have it take place after I am dead. If at all.”

Ifs Feels Poetry Left Tasks Critics Poetry Is Criticize

Author:Margaret Atwood

“Poetry isn't an activity, it's a way life is lived.”

Way Life Life Is Poetry Activity Poetry Is

Author:Vanna Bonta

“Poetry is a subset of a Cosmos, which in itself, is a poem.”

Poetry Cosmos Poetry Is

Author:Vanna Bonta

“Poetry is our heart, our spirit, our soul. Call it whatever; without it, everything else is nothing but hardware.”

Heart Soul Spirit Poetry Poetry Is Hardware

Author:Vanna Bonta

“The good, supreme, divine poetry is above the rules and reason. Whoever discerns its beauty with a firm, sedate gaze does not see it, any more than he sees the splendor of a lightning flash. It does not persuade our judgement, it ravishes and overwhelms it.”

Doe Reason Divine Supreme Firm Judgement Poetry Is Flash Lightning Splendor

Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

“Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.”

Remember Poetry Poetry Is

Book:Lectures on the English Poets

Source: Lectures on the English Poets

“Beauty is startling. She wears a gold shawl in the summer and sells seven kinds of honey at the flea market. She is young and old at once, my daughter and my grandmother. In school she excelled in mathematics and poetry. . . Beauty will dance with anyone who is brave enough to ask her.”

Kind Enough School Young Asks Summer Daughter Gold Mathematics Sells Brave Seven Grandmother Poetry Is My Daughter Honey My Grandmother Fleas Young And Old Flea Markets

Author:J. Ruth Gendler

“Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.”

Heart Language Universal Poetry Is Contempt Universal Language

Book:Lectures on the English Poets

Source: Lectures on the English Poets

“Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.”

Wonder Mysterious Poetry Is

Author:Seamus Heaney

“Poetry is supposed to be musical. But people don't understand prose. They're so used to reading journalism - clunky, functional sentences that convey factual information - facts, more than just the surfaces of things.”

People Facts Used Reading Information Musical Sentences Surface Journalism Supposed To Be Prose Poetry Is Factual

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem.”

People Thinking Writing Down And Poetry Is

Author:Charles Bukowski

“Poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me. I like to poem my way through tricky questions and ideas. That's about the only consistent thread through my poem-creation process.”

Way Ideas Process Creation Strategy My Way Consistent Poetry Is Thread Puzzles Tricky

Author:Sarah Kay

“Comic strips introduced me to metaphors. They are pure metaphor, so you learn how to tell a story with symbols, which is a very valuable thing to learn. And I learned that from motion pictures, too, and from poetry. Poetry is mainly metaphor. If it doesn't have a metaphor, it doesn't work.”

Ifs Stories Pure Metaphor Valuable Symbols Comic Poetry Is Motion Pictures Valuable Things Comic Strips

Author:Ray Bradbury

“Poets are political, they have to be reflections of their times [because] they're living in their times... Poetry is political in that it's standing in opposition to fascism. Good poetry asks a bunch of questions and asks the audience to interact with themselves or see themselves in it; maybe you like it or you don't like it. But the fascist sort of stuff plays on your fears and tells you to jump on the party line and gives some simple excuses - blame this person.”

Giving Persons Play Political Asks Stuff Lines Simple Party Audience Poet Reflection Standing Blame Excuse Bunch Opposition Poetry Is Fascism Fascists You Like It Good Poetry Time Poetry

Author:John Cusack

“Poetry is the most informative of all of the arts because everything comes down to poetry. No matter what it is we are describing, ultimately we use either a metaphor; or we say "that's poetry in motion." You drink a glass of wine and say, "that's poetry in a bottle." Everything is poetry, so I think we come down to emotional information. And that's what poetry conveys.”

Thinking Art Matter Use Information Emotional Drink Art Is No Matter What Wine Metaphor Glasses Poetry Is Bottles Describing Wine Glass Informative

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“Poetry is like air. It's one of the necessary things. Everyone benefits from poetry. And as you know, poetry is international. There are only two things that are truly international, poetry and wine.”

Knows Two Air Benefits Wine International Two Things Poetry Is Necessary Things

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion. What I'm finding is that in our increasingly dysfunctional U.S. society, marvelous poetry is being written - out of and amid the dysfunction.”

Art Language Written Particular Findings Art Is Occasions Poetry Is Marvelous Adequate Dysfunction

Author:Adrienne Rich

“My songs were influenced not so much by poetry on the page but by poetry being recited by the poets who recited poems with jazz bands.”

Song Poet Band Pages Jazz Poetry Is Jazz Band

Book:The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career

Source: The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career

“I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to come and sit on your couch.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Writing Poetry Is Muse Couches Autonomous Writing Poetry

Author:Alice Walker

“Poetry is music though, unfortunately, not all music is poetry. Because music has other carriers to take its message - beats, lyrics, singers, bass players - anyone in music can rise to make a major statement but in poetry there are only words to do the work. And they do sometimes have to sweat.”

Sometimes Player Majors Messages Music Is Beats Singers Statements Poetry Is Sweat Bass Carrier Bass Players

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“I love poetry, be it in music or be it in Andrei Tarkovsky, Francesca Woodman or anyone else, I just love poetry.”

Poetry Is Love Poetry

Author:Graciela Iturbide

“On the one hand poetry is useless. It can't change the world materially. On the other hand it is a basic part of human existence. It came into the world when humans did. It's what makes human beings human.”

World Humans Hands Human Beings Existence Useless Changing The World Poetry Is Being Human Can't Change Human Existence

Author:Bei Dao

“Poetry is a really helpful instrument. It's so physical; the musicality becomes a sort of expression of the body. The mind is there too, in the formal aspects of the poem. The emotions are there in the way the senses gather things into the poem.”

Way Mind Body Emotion Expression Aspect Instruments Senses Helpful Poetry Is Formal Musicality

Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming

“Poetry is one of the most full ways of discovering what it feels like to be a human being in this particular moment, in this particular set of concerns. It's all about discovery.”

Way Feels Humans Moments Human Beings Particular Discovery Concern Poetry Is Discovering

Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming

“Bringing science into poetry is one way of acknowledging some of the richest stuff that is in my cultural moment.”

Way Moments Stuff One Way Poetry Is

Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming

“We're nature. Our minds are nature. Our desire to make poetry is nature.”

Mind Desire Poetry Is

Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming

“Poetry is often very critical of the culture from which it emerges. Quite often literary critics of a nationalist bent talk up the national culture, in a way that the literary texts don't. Poetry can bring out areas of denial and repression.”

Way Culture Areas Critics Critical Denial Poetry Is Bent Repression National Culture

Author:Edna Longley

“Poetry isn't an efficient tool for preserving experience, any more than it's an efficient mode of communication, but who says that it should be efficient?”

Should Communication Tools Poetry Is Efficient

Author:James Arthur

“For me, poetry is a way of thinking, and like many poets, I'm driven by the idea of trying to find the impossible, perfect words: the words that will hold my subject.”

Thinking Way Trying Ideas Perfect Impossible Subjects Poet Driven Poetry Is Way Of Thinking

Author:James Arthur

“All poetry is political, to some degree.”

Political Degrees Poetry Is

Author:Mike Young

“Poetry is a way of always paying attention to the world for me; a way of letting the world stick to me instead of being anxious or estranged, just being present in the world.”

World Way Attention Sticks Pay Attention Poetry Is Anxious Just Being

Author:Mike Young

“My father's death when I was eighteen and his struggles as a Jewish immigrant provided me with the raw material, but for a long time I went from painting to fiction and then finally to poetry before I could find the right way of telling this story.”

Way Long Stories Father Fiction Struggle Painting Materials Long Time Immigrants Poetry Is Right Way Eighteen Raw Materials

Author:Philip Schultz

“Confessional poetry is, to my mind, more slippery than poems that are sloppily autobiographical; I find the confessional mode much more akin to dramatic monologue.”

Mind Dramatic Poetry Is Slippery Monologues

Author:Cate Marvin

“One of the reasons poetry is such an amazing genre to work with is because it constantly reinvents itself and re-negotiates its terms with the reader.”

Reason Term Reader Genre Poetry Is

Author:Cate Marvin

“My poetry is not lyric. The epigrams are lyric because they come from my youthful period of lyricism, but my other poetry is not lyric.”

Periods Poetry Is Epigrams

Author:Ernesto Cardenal

“I've always felt that poetry is the enemy of silence, but of course, in the right moments, silence can be useful. The trick is just trying to figure out when. And when I say silence, I suppose I actually meant erasure - poetry is a force against that, I think, or it should be.”

Thinking Should Trying Moments Courses Force Felt Silence Enemy Figures Tricks Poetry Is Right Moment

Author:Cornelius Eady

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