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“I'm not lookin' for someone who can save me. Life rafts might keep you afloat but they rarely get you anywhere and I've got places I wanna go. So break me in two, peel back my rib cage and cover every page of my heart with love poems you will burn someday.”

Inspirational Heart Two Might Poetry Break My Heart Pages Someday Cages Love Poems Save Me Ribs Rib Cage

Author:Andrea Gibson

“20th century poetry is a piñata. Images break from the earth when the poet strikes it.”

Earth Poetry Break Century Poet Strikes Poetry Is 20th Century

Author:Diane Glancy

“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

“Literature is a form of language that breaks with the whole definition of genres as forms adapted to an order of representations, and becomes merely a manifestation of a language which has no other law than that of affirming in opposition to all other forms of discourse its own precipitous existence.”

Art Whole Form Law Poetry Order Literature Language Existence Break Definitions Genre Manifestation Opposition Representation Discourse Adapted Affirming

Book:The Order of Things

Source: The Order of Things

“The poet's discourse can be compared to the track of a charged particle through a cloud-chamber. An energised field of association and connotation, of overtones and undertones, of rebus and homophone, surround its motion, and break from it in the context of collision .. in Western poetry so much of the charged substance is previous poetry.”

Poetry Literature Break Fields Poet Western Clouds Track Substance Surround Association Discourse Chamber Particles Collision Connotation

Author:George Steiner

“O heart, be at peace, because Nor knave nor dolt can break What's not for their applause, Being for a woman's sake.”

Heart Poetry Opinion Break Poet Sake Public Opinion Applause Knaves

Book:Selected Poems And Four Plays

Source: Selected Poems And Four Plays

“To break the pentameter, that was the first heave”

Firsts Poetry Break

Book:The Cantos of Ezra Pound

Source: The Cantos of Ezra Pound

“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

Book:Yo-yo boing!

Source: Yo-yo boing!

“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

“A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait, as if the genii who inhabit them suspend their deeds until the wayfarer had passed onward; a thought which poetry has celebrated in the dance of the fairies, which breaks off on the approach of human feet.”

Ifs Humans Said Poetry Waiting Break Feet Approach Deeds Woods Forests Fairy Riding Faerie Break Off

Book:The Annotated Emerson

Source: The Annotated Emerson

“Poetry, like dreams, will eventually break through every person's consciousness, even the tightest iconoclast's.”

Persons Dream Poetry Consciousness Break Break Through

Author:Sheila Bender

“The poet is the one who breaks through our habits.”

Poetry Break Poet Habit Break Through

Book:St.-John Perse, Luigi Pirandello, Henrik Pontoppidan, Salvatore Quasimodo

Source: St.-John Perse, Luigi Pirandello, Henrik Pontoppidan, Salvatore Quasimodo

“Everybody nose dive, hold your breath, count to five. Back slap, booby trap, cover it up in bubble wrap. Room shake, earth quake, find a way to stay awake. It's going to blow, it's going to break, this is more than I can take.”

Way I Can Earth Poetry Rooms Break Five Breaths Blow Noses Awake Shakes Bubbles Traps Wraps Slap Quake

Author:Peter Gabriel

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