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“Poetry is the special medium of spiritual crazy wisdom, the form of expression that comes closest to creating a bridge between words and what is wordless.”

Spiritual Form Poetry Crazy Special Expression Creating Mediums Bridges Poetry Is Closest

Book:Crazy Wisdom

Source: Crazy Wisdom

“Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form.”

Men May Form Joy Desire Poetry Sorrow Infinity August Persephone

Book:A Passage to India

Source: A Passage to India

“Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form.”

Writing Form Poetry Special Painter Translations Something Special Illustration

Author:Paul Gauguin

“Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.”

School Form Poetry Education Teach Subjects Poetry Is

Book:Conversations with Nikki Giovanni

Source: Conversations with Nikki Giovanni

“Poetry is the most concentrated form of literature; it is the most emotionalized and powerful way in which thought can be presented.”

Way Form Poetry Literature Powerful Poetry Is

Book:Tendencies in Modern American Poetry

Source: Tendencies in Modern American Poetry

“the truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same.”

Form Poetry

Author:Muriel Rukeyser

“we are far too used to the assumption that poetry and poets will be there when we want them, no matter how long they have been ignored, taken for granted, misused. After all, isn't poetry a form of prophecy, and aren't prophets known for their talent for flourishing in inhospitable deserts and other bleak surroundings? Maybe. But maybe not indefinitely.”

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

“Poetry, unlike music, is a meta-art, and relies upon non-physical structures for the production of its effects. In its case, the medium is syntax, grammar and logical continuity, which together form the carrier-wave of plain sense within which its deeper meanings are broadcast.”

Art Together Form Poetry Cases Effects Music Is Structure Wave Productions Deeper Mediums Rely Logical Grammar Continuity Carrier Rely Upon Syntax Deeper Meaning

Author:Don Paterson

“Poetry lies at the centre of the literary experience because it is the form that most clearly asserts the specificity of literature.”

Art Form Lying Poetry Literature Centre Specificity

Author:Jonathan Culler

“When oxygen and sulphur dioxide are mixed in the presence of a filiament of platinum, they form sulphurous acid. This combination takes place only if the platinum is present; nevertheless the newly formed acid contains no trace of platinum, and the platinum itself is apparently unaffected: has remained inert, neutral, and unchanged. The mind of the poet is the shred of platinum.”

Ifs Mind Art Form Poetry Poet Combination Nevertheless Oxygen Acid Platinum

Book:Selected essays

Source: Selected essays

“Poetic language features an iconic rather than a predominantly conventional relationship of form and content in which all language (and cultural) elements, variant as well as invariant, may be involved in the expression of the content.", "Analysis of the Poetic Text.”

Wells May Art Form Poetry Language Expression Involved Elements Features Analysis Poetic Conventional Iconic

Author:Yuri Lotman

“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

“Good poetry does undoubtedly tend to form the soul and character; it tends to beget a love of beauty and of truth in alliance together, it suggests, however indirectly, high and noble principles of action, and it inspires the emotion so helpful in making principles operative.”

Doe Soul Character Action Together Form Poetry Literature Emotion Principles Inspire Noble Helpful Alliances Begets Good Poetry

Book:Matthew Arnold on education

Source: Matthew Arnold on education

“Poetry and code - and mathematics - make us read differently from other forms of writing. Written poetry makes the silent reader read three kinds of pattern at once; code moves the reader from a static to an active, interactive and looped domain; while algebraic topology allows us to read qualitative forms and their transformations.”

Writing Kind Moving Form Poetry Three Literature Written Reader Transformation Mathematics Silent Patterns Active Code Domain Static Interactive Qualitative Topology

Author:Stephanie Strickland

“Stopgaps do belong to the internal economy of the form, since the Whole requires them, even if only in a subordinate position ... The stopgap Luigi Paryson's 'zeppa' accepts its own banality, because without the speed that the banal allows up, it would slow up a passage that is crucial for the outcome of the work and its interpretation.”

Ifs Whole Form Poetry Literature Accepting Economy Position Speed Outcomes Internals Interpretation Crucial Passages Subordinates Banality

Author:Umberto Eco

“Write, form a rhizome, increase your territory by deterritorialization, extend the line of flight to the point where it becomes an abstract machine covering the entire plane of consistency.”

Writing Form Poetry Literature Lines Machines Increase Flight Planes Abstract Territory Consistency Covering

Book:EPZ Thousand Plateaus

Source: EPZ Thousand Plateaus

“The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts.”

Art Real Form Poetry Artist Lord Poet Masters Musician Supreme Colour

Book:The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde

“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.”

Should Art Different Ends Matter Form Spirit Poetry Given Situation Achieve Subjects Events Poet Circumstances Degrees Unity Mere Strive Instance Landscape Strife Penetrate Incidents Topography

Author:Walter Pater

“I invented the colors of the vowels!--A black, E white, I red, O blue, U green--I made rules for the form and movement of each consonant, and, and with instinctive rhythms, I flattered myself that I had created a poetic language accessible, some day, to all the senses.”

Made Form Poetry Language Black White Movement Color Poet Red Blue Green Senses Rhythm Poetic Flattered Vowels Consonants

Author:Arthur Rimbaud

“And we may be led, then, upward through more Powerful forms of poetry, past columns With peeling posters on them, to the country of indifference. Meanwhile if the swell diapasons, blooms Unhappily and too soon, the little people are nonetheless real.”

People Ifs May Littles Art Real Country Past Form Poetry Powerful Poet Indifference Columns Posters Peeling

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Poetry can be criticized only through poetry. A critique which itself is not a work of art, either in content as representation of the necessary impression in the process of creation, or through its beautiful form and in its liberal tone in the spirit of the old Roman satire, has no right of citizenship in the realm of art.”

Art Beautiful Form Spirit Poetry Process Creation Poet Criticism Impression Realms Tone Satire Works Of Art Representation Citizenship Critique

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Poetry and philosophy are, according to how you take them, different spheres, different forms, or factors of religion. Try to really combine both, and you will have nothing but religion.”

Trying Different Philosophy Form Poetry Religion Poet Philosophical Factors Spheres

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Paraphrase, in the sense of summary, is as indispensable to the novel-critic as close analysis is to the critic of lyric poetry. The natural deduction is that novels are paraphrasable whereas poems are not. But this is a false deduction because close analysis is itself a disguised form of paraphrase.”

Form Poetry Literature Natural Novel Critics Analysis Indispensable Deductions Summary Paraphrase Lyric Poetry

Book:Language of Fiction: Essays in Criticism and Verbal Analysis of the English Novel

Source: Language of Fiction: Essays in Criticism and Verbal Analysis of the English Novel

“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.”

Writing Mind Facts Feelings Together Form Poetry Poet Phrases Particles Compounds Seizing Individual Talent

Book:Selected essays

Source: Selected essays

“I see little hope for democracy as an effective form of government, but I admire the poetry of how it makes its victims complicit in their own destruction.”

Littles Government Form Poetry Hope Democracy Destruction Victim Admire Sarcasm Sarcastic Effectiveness Forms Of Government Admiring Complicity

Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky

“By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman, or the charlatan. In other words, it forfeits its own evolutionary potential. For what distinguishes us from the rest of the animal kingdom is precisely the gift of speech. Poetry is not a form of entertainment and in a certain sense not even a form of art, but it is our anthropological, genetic goal. Our evolutionary, linguistic beacon.”

Art Form Poetry Certain Goal Animal Failing Poet Politician Speech Entertainment Kingdoms Poetry Is Inferiors Doom Salesman Beacons Forfeit Charlatans Articulation Animal Kingdom

Author:Joseph Brodsky

“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

“The merit of poetry, in its wildest forms, still consists in its truth-truth conveyed to the understanding, not directly by the words, but circuitously by means of imaginative associations, which serve as its conductors.”

Mean Stills Form Poetry Understanding Merit Association Imaginative Conductor

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“I think the poet is the last person who is still speaking the truth when no one else dares to. I think the poet is the first person to begin the shaping and visioning of the new forms and the new consciousness when no one else has begun to sense it; I think these are two of the most essential human functions.”

“Abstract art was the quivalent of poetic expression; I didn’t need to use words,but colors and lines. I didn’t need to belong to a language-oriented culture but to an open form of expression.”

Needs Art Use Form Poetry Culture Language Lines Color Painting Expression Abstract Poetic Abstract Art Wording

Author:Etel Adnan

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public”

Writing Art Form Poetry Social Naked Acceptable Publicity Nudity

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.”

May Littles Feelings Form Poetry Our Lives Awareness Constant Deeper Penetrate Evasion

Book:The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism: Studies in the Relation of Criticism to Poetry in England

Source: The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism: Studies in the Relation of Criticism to Poetry in England

“One had a lovely face, And two or three had charm, But charm and face were in vain. Because the mountain grass Cannot keep the form Where the mountain hare has lain.”

Two Faces Form Poetry Three Mountain Lovely Vain Grass Charm Hares Lovely Face

Book:The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

“POETRY, n. A form of expression peculiar to the Land beyond the Magazines.”

Form Poetry Land Expression Magazines Peculiar

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“Rhymes, meters, stanza forms, etc., are like servants. If the master is fair enough to win their affection and firm enough to command their respect, the result is an orderly happy household. If he is too tyrannical, they give notice; if he lacks authority, they become slovenly, impertinent, drunk and dishonest.”

Ifs Giving Art Enough Form Poetry Winning Results Masters Authority Fairs Affection Command Drunk Firm Servant Etc Household Rhyme Meter Orderly

Author:W. H. Auden

“Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme, both supple and staccato enough to adapt itself to the lyrical movements of our souls, the undulating movements of our reveries, and the convulsive movements of our consciences? This obsessive ideal springs above all from frequent contact with enormous cities, from the junction of their innumerable connections.”

Source: The Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo

“A poem is a form of refrigeration that stops language going bad.”

Form Poetry Language

Author:Peter Porter

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