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“Joy is a part of my process. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that poetry, as a practice, necessitates a sense of joy. It's exhilarating to come into contact with the things we write into being. And a real sense of play and abandon even when we are relying on hard-won technique, and even when the aim is deadly serious. How often do we get the excuse to stop, think, and then stop thinking altogether and try to listen to what sits behind our outside of our thoughts? Poets are lucky.”

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Author:Tracy K. Smith

“Poetry is fact given over to imagery.”

Facts Poetry Given Poetry Is Imagery

Author:Rod McKuen

“Poetry colors beings, objects, landscapes and sensations with a kind of new and particular light, which is in fact that of the poet's emotions.”

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Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“In literature, questions of fact or truth are subordinated to the primary literary aims of producing a structure of words for its own sake, and the sign-values of symbols are subordinated to their importance as a structure of interconnected motifs.”

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Book:Anatomy of Criticism

Source: Anatomy of Criticism

“It is the unspecified 'you' of modern love poems that I am mostly concerned with here. At least, the addressee is commonly a lover, and the very fact that the name is withheld is offered as a guarantee of the closeness and significance of the relationship.”

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Book:Who Is Ozymandias?: And other Puzzles in Poetry

Source: Who Is Ozymandias?: And other Puzzles in Poetry

“Part of the strength of Pollock and Rothko's art, in fact, is this doubt as to whether art may be there at all.”

May Art Facts Poetry Literature Doubt Pollock

Author:John Ashbery

“Powell belongs, in fact to the first generation of American poets who may have grown up without even a vestigial connection to the accentual-syllabic, rhyming English tradition - his inventive lines have this absence at their back.”

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Book:Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry

Source: Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry

“A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.”

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Book:The poetics

Source: The poetics

“Everywhere we are told that our human resources are all to be used, that our civilization itself means the uses of everything it has - the inventions, the histories, every scrap of fact. But there is one kind of knowledge - infinitely precious, time-resistant more than monuments, here to be passed between the generations in any way it may be: never to be used. And that is poetry.”

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Author:Muriel Rukeyser

“The poem is lonely. It is lonely and en route. Its author stays with it. Does this very fact not place the poem already here, at its inception, in the encounter, in the mystery of encounter?”

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Book:Paul Celan: Selections

Source: Paul Celan: Selections

“I wrote a great deal of verse. In fact, every time I fell in love, which was rather often, I burst into the emotional sort of thing which is perennially salable.”

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Book:A woman of fifty

Source: A woman of fifty

“The life and vigor of poetry consists of the fact that it steps out of itself, tears out a section of religion, then withdraws into itself to assimilate it. The same is true of philosophy.”

Philosophy Facts Poetry Steps Tears Poet Sections Vigor

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“It is unwise to equate scientific activity with what we call reason, poetic activity with what we call imagination. Without the imaginative leap from facts to generalisation, no theoretic discovery in science is made. The poet, on the other hand, must not imagine but reason--that is to say, he must exercise a great deal of consciously directed thought in the selection and rejection of his data: there is a technical logic, a poetic reasoning in his choice of the words, rhythms and images by which a poem's coherence is achieved.”

“It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.”

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Author:W. H. Auden

“When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.”

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Author:Niels Bohr

“The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.”

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Book:Selected essays

Source: Selected essays

“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.”

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Book:Eight Lectures on Yoga

Source: Eight Lectures on Yoga

“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

“Fax me a fact and I'll telegram a hologram or telephone the son of man and tell him he is done. Leave a message on his answering machine telling him there are none. God and I are one. Times moon. Times star. Times sun. The factor is me. You remember me.”

Source: The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop

“The poets are almost always wrong about the facts... That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth...”

Facts Poetry Poet Not Interested Always Wrong

Author:William Faulkner

“One day while studying a Yeats poem I decided to write poetry the rest of my life. I recognized that a single short poem has room for history, music, psychology, religious thought, mood, occult speculation, character, and events of one's own life. I still feel surprised that such various substances can find shelter and nourishment in a poem. A poem in fact may be a sort of nourishing liquid, such as one uses to keep an amoeba alive. If prepared right, a poem can keep an image or a thought or insights on history or the psyche alive for years, as well as our desires and airy impulses.”

“If not then you must be trying to hear us and in such cases we cannot be heard. We remain in the darkness, unseen. In the center of unpeeled bananas, we exist. Uncolored by perception. Clothed to the naked eye. Five senses cannot sense the fact of our existence. And that's the only fact. In fact, there are no facts.”

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Book:The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop

Source: The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop

“The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in America has been ascribed by our rebels to the horrible squareness of our institutions, the idiocy of power, the debasement of sexual instincts, and the failure of writers to be alienated enough. The poems and novels of these same rebellious spirits, and their theoretical statements, are grimy and gritty and very boring too, besides being nonsensical, and it is evident by now that polymorphous sexuality and vehement declarations of alienation are not going to produce great works of art either.”

Source: There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction

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