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“Poetry must find ways of breaking distance.... all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds.”

Way Made Poetry Language Break Distance Dialect

Source: Yo-yo boing!

“By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman, or the charlatan. In other words, it forfeits its own evolutionary potential. For what distinguishes us from the rest of the animal kingdom is precisely the gift of speech. Poetry is not a form of entertainment and in a certain sense not even a form of art, but it is our anthropological, genetic goal. Our evolutionary, linguistic beacon.”

Art Form Poetry Certain Goal Animal Failing Poet Politician Speech Entertainment Kingdoms Poetry Is Inferiors Doom Salesman Beacons Forfeit Charlatans Articulation Animal Kingdom

Author:Joseph Brodsky

“Some rhyme a neebor's name to lash; Some rhyme (vain thought!) for needfu' cash; Some rhyme to court the countra clash, An' raise a din; For me, an aim I never fash; I rhyme for fun.”

Poetry Names Fun Aim Raises Court Vain Cash Rhyme Clash Lashes

Author:Robert Burns

“Our poetry now is the realization that we possess nothing. Anything therefore is a delight (since we do not posses it) and thus need not fear its loss.”

Needs Poetry Loss Delight Realization Posse

Author:John Cage

“Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought.”

Poetry Musical

Book:Sartor Resartus

Source: Sartor Resartus

“A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams.”

Should Dream Poetry Poet Proof Passages

Author:Rene Char

“An undevout poet is an impossibility.”

Poetry Poet Impossibility

Book:Lectures and Notes on Shakespeare and Other English Poets

Source: Lectures and Notes on Shakespeare and Other English Poets

“No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.”

Men Humans Poetry Passion Language Emotion Poet Profound Philosopher Poetry Is Fragrance Great Poet Human Thought Human Knowledge Poetry By Famous Poets

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“If you examine the highest poetry in the light of common sense, you can only say that it is rubbish; and in actual fact you cannot so examine it at all, because there is something in poetry which is not in the words themselves, which is not in the images suggested by the words 'O windy star blown sideways up the sky!' True poetry is itself a magic spell which is a key to the ineffable.”

Ifs Facts Light Poetry Stars Common Magic Sky Keys Highest Common Sense Poetry Is Spells Rubbish Sideways Ineffable Windy

Book:Eight Lectures on Yoga

Source: Eight Lectures on Yoga

“I'm a poetry-skipper myself. I don't like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country - make it any other two persons. This doesn't mean that I hate poetry. I don't feel that strongly about it. It only means that those who wish to communicate with me by means of the written word must do so in prose.”

Feels Mean Persons Two Country Age Poetry Hate Wish Written Weight I Hate Communicate Prose Boast Written Word Skipper

Author:Will Cuppy

“Doeg, though without knowing how or why, Made still a blundering kind of melody; Spurr'd boldly on, and dash'd through thick and thin, Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in; Free from all meaning whether good or bad, And in one word, heroically mad.”

Kind Made Stills Poetry Knowing Mad Nonsense Melody Thick One Word Thick And Thin Through Thick And Thin

Book:Poetical Works: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations

Source: Poetical Works: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations

“It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”

Poetry Understood Tests Communicate Genuine

Book:Selected essays

Source: Selected essays

“I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Facts Form Poetry Poet

Book:The Life and Letters of Faraday

Source: The Life and Letters of Faraday

“Poetry's a mere drug, Sir.”

Poetry Drug Mere

Author:George Farquhar

“I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.”

Way Poetry Lost Prose Verses Translations

Book:Conversations on the Craft of Poetry

Source: Conversations on the Craft of Poetry

“The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries, and though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian philosopher and historian - the humble listener - there has been a Divine melody running through the song which speaks of hope and halcyon days to come.”

“Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves.”

Way Poetry Humorous Philosopher Practicals Fancy Reasonable Irrational

Book:Some speculations on literature, history, and religion

Source: Some speculations on literature, history, and religion

“Philosophy is antipoetic. Philosophize about mankind and you brush aside individual uniqueness, which a poet cannot do without self-damage. Unless, for a start, he has a strong personal rhythm to vary his metrics, he is nothing. Poets mistrust philosophy. They know that once the heads are counted, each owner of a head loses his personal identify and becomes a number in some government scheme: if not as a slave or serf, at least as a party to the device of majority voting, which smothers personal views.”

Source: Some speculations on literature, history, and religion

“Abstract reason, formerly the servant of practical human reasons, has everywhere become its master, and denies poetry any excuse for existence. Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves. Of never acquiescing in a fraud; of never accepting the secondary-rate in poetry, painting, music, love, friends. Of safeguarding our poetic institutions against the encroachments of mechanized, insensate, inhumane, abstract rationality.”

“Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.”

Humans Mother Poetry Race Tongue Human Race Poetry Is Mother Tongue

Book:Writings on Philosophy and Language

Source: Writings on Philosophy and Language

“A poem is good if it contains a new analogy and startles the reader out of the habit of treating words as counters.”

Ifs Poetry Reader Habit Analogies

Author:T. E. Hulme

“The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.”

Poetry Essence Surprise Delight Invention Unexpected Poetry Is Something Unexpected

Book:The lives of the most eminent English poets, with critical observations on their works

Source: The lives of the most eminent English poets, with critical observations on their works

“Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!”

May Stills War Reason Poetry Rhyme Jars Syllables

Author:Ben Jonson

“Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the instrument of transferance.”

Should Ends Poetry Emotion Poet Reader Instruments

Author:Philip Larkin

“Novels are about other people and poems are about yourself.”

People Poetry Novel About Yourself

Author:Philip Larkin

“As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.”

Poetry Civilization Decline

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“As for me, Poetry takes the place of love, because it is enamored of itself, and because this self-lust has a delightful dying fall in my soul.”

Soul Self Poetry Fall Love Is Dying Lust My Soul Delightful Enamored

Author:Stephane Mallarme

“Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter...the troublesom and modern bondage of Rimeing.”

Matter Age Poetry Modern Invention Verses Bondage Wretched Ornaments Lame

Author:John Milton

“Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.”

Knows Writing Remember Poetry Pleasure Poetry Is Making Love Writing Poetry

Book:This Business of Living

Source: This Business of Living

“Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal but which the reader recognizes as his own.”

Inspirational Believe Feelings Poetry Poet Reader Revelations Poetry Is Interiors Great Poetry Poetry By Famous Poets

Author:Salvatore Quasimodo

“Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.”

Knows Science Poetry Knowledge Accounts Poetry Is

Author:Philibert Joseph Roux

“Made poetry a mere mechanic art.”

Art Made Poetry Mere Mechanic

Author:William Cowper

“Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?”

Feels Poetry Poet Rounds Bread Ruins Shed Rhyme Flattery Barren Myrtle

Author:George Crabbe

“Why then we should drop into poetry.”

Should Poetry

Book:The Works of Charles Dickens: Our mutual friend

Source: The Works of Charles Dickens: Our mutual friend

“It is not enough that poetry is agreeable, it should also be interesting.”

Should Enough Poetry Interesting Poetry Is

Author:Horace

“Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.”

Poetry Faults Imperfection Proceeding Negligence

Author:Horace

“Let your poem be kept nine years.”

Years Poetry Nine Nine Years

Author:Horace

“A drainless shower Of light is poesy: 'tis the supreme of power; 'Tis might half slumbering on its own right arm.”

Light Might Poetry Half Arms Supreme Showers

Book:Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats

Source: Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats

“Gently touching with the charm of poetry.”

Poetry Charm Touching

Author:Lucretius

“The merit of poetry, in its wildest forms, still consists in its truth-truth conveyed to the understanding, not directly by the words, but circuitously by means of imaginative associations, which serve as its conductors.”

Mean Stills Form Poetry Understanding Merit Association Imaginative Conductor

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.”

Age Poetry Wonderful Genius Proof Civilized Splendid

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“A poem round and perfect as a star.”

Poetry Stars Perfect Rounds

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.”

Poetry Old Fashioned

Book:The Complete Angler; Or, Comtemplative Man's Recreation: With Lives of the Authors, and Notes

Source: The Complete Angler; Or, Comtemplative Man's Recreation: With Lives of the Authors, and Notes

“I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them, travel abroad, experience the horrors of sordid passion, and - if he is lucky enough - know the love of an honest woman.”

Ifs Knows Should Believe Enough Poetry Passion I Believe Break Honest Poet Masters Horror Lucky Grammar Travel Abroad Honest Woman

Author:Robert Graves

“It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.”

Believe Hard Poetry Poet

Book:Randall Jarrell's letters: an autobiographical and literary selection

Source: Randall Jarrell's letters: an autobiographical and literary selection

“Everybody has their own idea of what's a poet. Robert Frost, President Johnson, T.S.Eliot, Rudolf Valentino - they're all poets. I like to think of myself as the one who carries the light bulb.”

Thinking Ideas Light Poetry President Poet Carrie Johnson Frost Bulbs Light Bulb Eliot Valentino President Johnson

Author:Bob Dylan

“In this poor body, composed of one hundred bones and nine openings, is something called spirit, a flimsy curtain swept this way and that by the slightest breeze. It is spirit, such as it is, which led me to poetry, at first little more than a pastime, then the full business of my life. There have been times when my spirit, so dejected, almost gave up the quest, other times when it was proud, triumphant. So it has been from the very start, never finding peace with itself, always doubting the worth of what it makes.”

Way Writing Firsts Littles Has Beens Body Spirit Poetry Poor Doubt Proud Findings Hundred Bones Nine Opening Quests Breeze Curtains Gave Up Finding Peace Triumphant Pastime Dejected

Author:Matsuo Basho

“In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it is the exact opposite.”

People Way Trying Science Poetry Understood Opposites Mathematical Poetry Is Great Science Science Physics Exact Sciences Science Research Science Life

Author:Paul Dirac

“Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing.”

Needs Poetry Poetry Is Editing Great Poetry Reading Poetry Poetry Reading

Book:The route as briefed

Source: The route as briefed

“Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.”

People Inspirational Funny Poetry Poetry Is

Author:Adrian Mitchell

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