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“A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.”

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Author:Robert Frost

“I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.”

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Author:Robert Frost

“Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.”

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Author:Robert Frost

“Poetry is a river; many voices travel in it; poem after poem moves along in the exciting crests and falls of the river waves. None is timeless; each arrives in an historical context; almost everything, in the end, passes. But the desire to make a poem, and the world's willingness to receive it--indeed the world's need of it--these never pass.”

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Book:A Poetry Handbook

Source: A Poetry Handbook

“Baby, I have no idea how this will end. Maybe the equator will fall like a hula hoop from the earth's hips and our mouths will freeze mid-kiss on our 80th anniversary or maybe tomorrow my absolute insanity combined with the absolute obstacle course of your communication skills will leave us like a love letter in a landfill. But whatever, however, whenever this ends I want you to know that right now, I love you forever.”

“There is no end to grief. Nor no end to poetry.”

Ends Poetry Grief

Book:The Collected Poems

Source: The Collected Poems

“the attempt to control poetry, to subordinate it to extra-poetic ends, constitutes misuse.”

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Book:A movement of poets: thoughts on poetry and feminism

Source: A movement of poets: thoughts on poetry and feminism

“The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.”

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Book:Selected poetry and prose

Source: Selected poetry and prose

“After all, poets shouldn't be their own interpreters and shouldn't carefully dissect their poems into everyday prose; that would mean the end of being poets. Poets send their creations into the world, it is up to the reader, the aesthetician, and the critic to determine what they wanted to say with their creations.”

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Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Soldier, there is a war between the mind And sky, between thought and day and night. It is For that the poet is always in the sun, Patches the moon together in his room To his Virgilian cadences, up down, Up down. It is a war that never ends.”

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Book:The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

Source: The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

“That the mere matter of a poem, for instance--its subject, its given incidents or situation; that the mere matter of a picture--the actual circumstances of an event, the actual topography of a landscape--should be nothing without the form, the spirit of the handling, that this form, this mode of handling, should become an end in itself, should penetrate every part of the matter;Mthis is what all art constantly strives after, and achieves in different degrees.”

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Author:Walter Pater

“... the attempt to control poetry, to subordinate it to extrapoetic ends, constitutes misuse.... it may be poetry's stubborn quality of rockbottom, intrinsic uselessness whichconstitutes the guarantee of its integrity, and hence of its ultimate value to us.”

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Author:Jan Clausen

“In the end, for congenial sympathy, for poetry, for work, for original feeling and expression, for perfect companionship with one's friends--give me the country.”

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Book:The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

“Where philosophy ends, poetry must commence. There should not be a common point of view, a natural manner of thinking which standsin contrast to art and liberal education, or mere living; that is, one should not conceive of a realm of crudeness beyond the boundaries of education. Every conscious link of an organism should not perceive its limits without a feeling for its unity in relation to the whole. For example, philosophy should not only be contrasted to non-philosophy, but also to poetry.”

“Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.”

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Author:W. S. Merwin

“Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.”

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Author:Robert Frost

“Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love”

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Author:Leonard Cohen

“The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.”

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Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“The poem . . . is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.”

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Author:Robert Penn Warren

“A perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written, the world would end. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.”

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Author:Robert Graves

“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.”

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Author:Philip Larkin

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.”

“Poetry is the tunnel at the end of the light.”

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Author:J. Patrick Lewis

“Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.”

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Author:Mark Strand

“The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the poem."”

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Author:Robert Penn Warren

“If you deconstruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat remain. That is, with as much, you reconstruct her.”

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Author:Odysseas Elytis

“For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.”

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Author:Robert Frost

“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.”

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Author:T. S. Eliot

“This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.”

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Author:T. S. Eliot

“Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.”

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Author:Jeremy Bentham

“The Earth is our mother just turning around, with her trees in the forest and roots underground. Our father above us whose sigh is the wind, paint us a rainbow without any end.”

Ends Earth Mother Poetry Father Tree Wind Roots Paint Forests Rainbow Sigh Our Father

Author:John Denver

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