“20th century poetry is a piñata. Images break from the earth when the poet strikes it.”
Poetry Quotes
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Source: Claiming Breath
Source: Claiming Breath
Source: Claiming Breath
Source: A Victorian Village: Reminiscences of Other Days
“What was the function of poetry if not to improve the petty, cautious minds of evasive children?”
Source: The Middleman and Other Stories
Source: Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature
Source: The Life and Teachings of Our Lord in Verse: Being a Complete Harmonized Exposition of the Four Gospels, with Original Notes Textual Index, Etc. Two Volumes in One, Vol. 1 -- The Evangel (second Edition), Vol. 2 -- The Light of the World
“a poem is like a wine glass in which you can hold up a little bit of reality and taste it.”
“Only poetry can address grief.”
Source: Webs of Power: Notes from the Global Uprising
“There is no end to grief. Nor no end to poetry.”
Source: The Collected Poems
“Poetry can magnify experience.”
Source: More poems to solve
Source: Baby
“clarity need not be equivalent to / readability. How readable is the world?”
Source: Collected Prose
Source: Collected Works
“I would rather read poetry than eat my dinner any day. It has been so all my life.”
“I believe that poets have to be inside their poems somewhere, or the poem won't work.”
Source: The spiral of memory: interviews
“I guess the quality that makes one write poetry keeps one from selling it.”
Source: Her Soul and Her Body
“Writing poetry is like always being in love. What masochism! What luxury!”
Source: The Poetical Works of Doctors Smollett, Johnson, and Goldsmith
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. In Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton: Illustrations, and Critical and Explanatory Remarks, by Johnson, Wakefield, A. Chalmers, F.S.A. and Others. To which are Added, Now First Published, Some Original Letters, with Additional Observations, and Memoirs of the Life of the Author
“Poetry has a small audience, but a large influence.”
Source: Calling Western union
“Your poems are like God's birds; they fly into people's hearts.”
Source: a single light
“I want a poem which is made of compression, passion, precision, symmetry, & disruption.”
“I believe in solitude broken like bread by poetry.”
Source: Poems
Source: Poems
“the attempt to control poetry, to subordinate it to extra-poetic ends, constitutes misuse.”
Source: A movement of poets: thoughts on poetry and feminism
Source: A movement of poets: thoughts on poetry and feminism
Source: The Critique of Judgment: Theory of the Aesthetic Judgment and Theory of the Teleological Judgment: Critique of the Power of Judgment from the Author of Critique of Pure Reason, Critique of Practical Reason, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals & Dreams of a Spirit-Seer