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“The poet in prose or verse - the creator - can only stamp his images forcibly on the page in proportion as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them.”

Long Poetry Felt Poet Pages Creator Proportion Prose Verses Stamps

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“I have never felt a placard and a poem are in any way similar.”

Way Poetry Politics Felt Poet

Author:Kristin Hunter

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”

“. . . it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are-until the poem-nameless and formless, about to be birthed, but already felt.”

Giving Ideas Poetry Names Felt Nameless

Book:Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“There is no question that the language of "felt thought" must be quarried from our personal depths. Like the best gold, it does not lie on the surface.”

Doe Lying Poetry Language Felt Gold Depth Surface

Author:Jacques Maritain

“The success of the poem is determined not by how much the poet felt in writing it, but by how much the reader feels in reading it.”

Feels Writing Poetry Reading Felt Poet Reader Determined

Author:John Ciardi

“I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.”

Art Feelings Poetry Felt Transformed Metaphysical

Book:The Varieties of Metaphysical Poetry

Source: The Varieties of Metaphysical Poetry

“The poet is born with the capacity of arranging words in such a way that something of the quality of the graces and inspirations he has received can make itself felt to other human beings in the white spaces, so to speak, between the lines of his verse. This is a great and precious gift; but if the poet remains content with his gift, if he persists in worshipping the beauty in art and nature without going on to make himself capable, through selflessness, of apprehending Beauty as it is in the divine Ground, then he is only an idolater.”

“Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.”

Heart Poetry Felt Poet Poetry Is Utterance Oracles Heart Felt

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin