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“Writing poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction.”

Giving Writing Form Give Me Satisfaction Labour Poetry Is Writing Poetry

“We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.”

“If you want a definition of poetry, say: Poetry is what makes me laugh or cry or yawn, what makes my toenails twinkle, what makes me want to do this or that or nothing and let it go at that.”

Ifs Want Laughing Cry Definitions Poetry Is Let It Go Make Me Laugh Toenails

Book:The Poems of Dylan Thomas

Source: The Poems of Dylan Thomas

“Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.”

Real Poetry Is Assertion

Author:T. S. Eliot

“Poetry is an investigation, not an expression, of what you know.”

Knows Expression Poetry Is Investigation

Author:Mark Doty

“Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are.”

Knows Poetry Is Dividends

Author:Czeslaw Milosz

“Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always pointing straight at you.”

Light Night Moon Standing Edges Lakes Poetry Is Pointing Standing On The Edge

Author:Billy Collins

“Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.”

Matter Feelings Language Poetry Is

Author:Umberto Eco

“In a lethal world, poetry is necessary for survival.”

World Survival Poetry Is

Author:Mary Caroline Richards

“I believe that poetry is a primal impulse within us all.”

Believe I Believe Impulse Poetry Is Primal

Author:Stephen Fry

“Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.”

Thinking Play Sports Football Instance Poetry Is

Author:Robert Frost

“Poetry is talking on tiptoe.”

Talking Poetry Is Tiptoes

Author:George Meredith

“Poetry is a religion with no hope.”

Poetry Is No Hope

Author:Jean Cocteau

“Poetry is about as much a 'criticism of life' as red-hot iron is a criticism of fire.”

Fire Red Criticism Hot Iron Poetry Is Red Hot

Author:Ezra Pound

“If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.”

Ifs Men Literature Objects Poetry Is Prophecy Heirs

Author:Muhammad Iqbal

“That is why I think, in defiance of Plato, that there is at once error and vulgarity in saying that poetry is a lie, except in the sense that Cocteau wrote one day: I am a lie who always tells the truth. The only poetry which lies purely and simply is academic, pseudo-classical, conceptually repetitive poetry, and it is not poetry.”

Thinking Lying One Day Errors Telling The Truth Poetry Is Academic Plato Defiance Vulgarity Pseudo Repetitive

Author:Jacques Maritain

“A play's an interpretation. It is not a report. And that is the beginning of its poetry because, in order to interpret, you have to distort toward a symbolic construction of what happened, and as that distortion takes place, you begin to leave out and overemphasize and consequently deliver up life as a unity rather than as a chaos, and any such attempt, the more intense it is, the more poetic it becomes.”

Play Order Happened Unity Chaos Intense Reports Poetry Is Poetic Interpretation Construction Symbolic Distortion

Author:Arthur Miller

“Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use words to construct a better world, a fictitious world that enables us to sign a pact for a permanent and comprehensive peace ... with life.”

World Use Teach Illusion Permanent Poetry Is Charming Nurture Constructs Comprehensive Reborn Pact

Author:Mahmoud Darwish

“Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words.”

Music Notes Poetry Is

Author:Eddie Izzard

“Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.”

Art Poetry Excellence Hardest Poetry Is

Author:John Gabriel Stedman

“Poetry is my first love. Photography often fails to look into things. It looks at things. Poetry is so much more truthful.”

Firsts Looks Failing Photography Poetry Is Truthful First Love Photography Love

Author:Larry Towell

“Poetry is my politics. It's an opportunity that gives me a way to speak.”

Way Giving Opportunity Speak Give Me Poetry Is

Author:Eileen Myles

“Poetry is something that disturbs the mainstream with minor things and it is something that breaks down active discrimination with passive things, and it can break down something that polishes the filthy things with filthy things.”

Break Active Discrimination Poetry Is Mainstream Passive Minors Breaking Down Polish Filthy Minor Things

Author:Kim Hyesoon

“The body of poetry is nothing but energy, waves, rhythm.”

Body Energy Wave Rhythm Poetry Is

Author:Kim Hyesoon

“Since the boundary of the world of poetry is fluid, the language in it is also fluid. Hence, the language that is outside of the poetry world, namely the language that is not the language of poetry, cannot go into the poetry world.”

World Language Boundaries Poetry Is Fluid

Author:Kim Hyesoon

“The language of poetry is not stuck in place. Nothing can own language. I think, however, the genre of poetry itself is very feminine and motherly.”

Thinking Language Stuck Genre Poetry Is Feminine Motherly

Author:Kim Hyesoon

“Poetry is the disease of the brain.”

Brain Disease Poetry Is

Author:Alfred de Vigny

“The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.”

Ends Desire Love Is Delight Poetry Is

Author:Robert Frost

“Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.”

“Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country.”

Country Energy Natural Resources Our Country Poetry Is Energy Crisis Natural Energy

Book:Of Poetry and Poets

Source: Of Poetry and Poets

“The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder.”

Purpose Wonder Mankind Possibility Poetry Is

Author:Octavio Paz

“The medium of poetry is not words, the medium of poetry is not lines-it is the motion of air inside the human body, coming out through the chest and the voice box and through the mouth to shape sounds that have meaning. It's bodily.”

Humans Body Sound Voice Lines Air Shapes Mouths Boxes Mediums Poetry Is Chests Coming Out Human Body

Author:Robert Pinsky

“On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once in a while, someone might pay to hear me read.”

Made Book Might Levels Pay Sells Practicals Poetry Is

Author:Viggo Mortensen

“To share poetry is one of the most intimate acts of friendship possible.”

Share Intimate Poetry Is

Author:Madeleine L'Engle

“Poetry is like a portrait of a moment or person, and the poem is almost like looking at a photograph; it slaps you in the face and kisses you at the same time. Nothing else does that, with that brevity. Songs try to do it, but that's three minutes. A poem, you read it and it kind of changes your life and you don't know how it happened and you can never forget it. It's like the best song lyric, the best line from a film-everything in the world that's short and great put together.”

“I like poetry because poetry - even in free verse - is formal, and it has to be very concise and packed and rich, and I like the feeling of having to do that, having to make the language tight and still free, as if the deepest freedom is created by the restrictions.”

Ifs Stills Feelings Language Rich Poetry Is Verses Formal Restriction Concise Free Verse

Author:Pattiann Rogers

“Poetry is so close to music, not just in cadence and sound but in silences. That's why, to me, I can't talk about prose poems. I can talk about poetic prose.”

I Can Sound Silence Prose Poetry Is Poetic Cadence

Author:Pattiann Rogers

“One of the most important differences I see between prose and poetry is the music of the language.”

Important Language Differences Prose Poetry Is Prose And Poetry

Author:Pattiann Rogers

“Poetry is very playful with language. I think all poetry, at its heart, is playful. It's doing unusual and playful things with the language, stirring it up. And prose is not doing that. Primarily it's not attempting to do that.”

Thinking Heart Language Prose Poetry Is Unusual Attempting Stirring

Author:Pattiann Rogers

“There are poets who believe that you shouldn't engage at all in any cause. And there's something to be said for that. Because you don't want to - I think most political poetry is very bad. And it's very bad because you know too much to start with. You have a sense that you're right, and you're trying to tell other people what's right. And I think that's always kind of fundamentalism, and I don't like it.”

People Thinking Knows Want Trying Believe Kind Said Political Causes Too Much Poet Poetry Is Fundamentalism

Author:W. S. Merwin

“But most love poetry is awful; nobody knows how to write good love poetry either. But that's not a reason not to write love poetry. Some of the best poetry ever written has been love poetry, and some of the greatest poetry ever written has been political poetry.”

Knows Writing Has Beens Reason Political Know How Written Awful Poetry Is Nobody Knows Love Poetry Good Love Best Poetry Greatest Poetry

Author:W. S. Merwin

“The Divine Comedy is a political poem and when you say poetry is not about - he's always quoted out of context, that "poetry makes nothing happen," that doesn't mean you shrug your shoulders and don't try to make anything happen. And Dante felt that poetry was engaged, there was a point of view; it's not my point of view, it's orthodox medieval Christianity, and I have my troubles with that. He didn't feel that you could just rule out so important a section of life - we care about these things, and it's out of caring about them that we write poetry.”

“I think all poetry is accessible in a certain sense if you spend enough time with it.”

Ifs Thinking Enough Certain Poetry Is Enough Time

Author:Matthea Harvey

“Speaking of people I had to exclude: Hank Williams. which is to say, songs are part of lyric poetry in my book, my thinking. In fact they are the urgent element of poetry in our time, they carry the most emotion for the most people in our culture. everyone LOVES poetry, because we all love (one form or another) of rock and roll (be it folk to emo to rap). It's all rock and roll and all lyric poetry.”

People Thinking Book Facts Form Song Culture Emotion Rocks Elements Folks Rap Our Time Poetry Is Rock And Roll One Love Urgent Love Poetry Emo Lyric Poetry Hank Williams

Author:Gregory Orr

“When I began to dare to be clear, because I think clarity is the real risk in poetry because you are exposed. You're out in the open field. You're actually saying things that are comprehensible, and it's easy to criticize something you can understand.”

Thinking Real Easy Clear Risk Fields Dare Clarity Poetry Is Criticize Exposed Open Fields

Author:Billy Collins

“Part of writing is discovering the rules of the game and then deciding whether to follow the rules or to break them. The great thing about the game of poetry is that it's always your turn - I guess that goes back to my being an only child. So once it's under way, there is a sense of flow.”

Way Writing Children Turns Games Break Flow Great Things Poetry Is Discovering Only Child Rules Of The Game

Author:Billy Collins

“You'll find i-poetry, you'll find that you can download poetry, that you can stuff your i-pod with recorded poetry. So just to answer the question that way, I think that poetry is gonna catch up with that technology quite soon.”

Thinking Way Stuff Answers Technology Poetry Is Downloads

Author:Billy Collins

“Whereas if you were writing an op-ed piece or an essay, somebody would be asking, "What's your point?" With poetry you can stay in a moment for as long as you want. Poetry is about metaphor, about a thing standing in for something else. It's the thing that opens out to something else. What that something else is changes for readers. So what's on the page - it falls away.”

Ifs Want Writing Long Moments Would Be Fall Pieces Reader Pages Standing Asking Metaphor Poetry Is Essays

Author:Claudia Rankine

“Poetry is probably the last gift economy. Part of the negotiation is to understand that you're going to do something you really want to do, so you're going to take whatever life comes with that.”

Want Lasts Economy Poetry Is Negotiation

Author:Claudia Rankine

“News isn't designed to talk about daily life in its nuances, but poetry is.”

News Daily Life Poetry Is Nuance

Author:Eliza Griswold

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