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Source: A Poetry Handbook

“These days, if you happen to be a poet you have to sing your words to get your ideas out.”

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“We need a safe place, a reserve of truth, a place where words kindle ideas and set ideas sparking off in others, a word sanctuary. Poetry is this gathering place of words.”

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Author:Allison Mackie

“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.”

“When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.”

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Book:This Business of Living

Source: This Business of Living

“Poetry interprets in two ways: it interprets by expressing, with magical felicity, the physiognomy and movements of the outward world; and it interprets by expressing, with inspired conviction, the ideas and laws of the inward world of man's moral and spiritual nature. In other words, poetry is interpretative both by having natural magic in it, and by having moral profundity.”

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Book:Essays in Criticism

Source: Essays in Criticism

“But it's silly to suggest the writing of poetry is something ethereal, a sort of soul-crashing, devastating emotional experience that wrings you. I have no fancy ideas about poetry. ... It doesn't come to you on the wings of a dove. It's something you have to work hard at.”

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Book:Journey around my room: the autobiography of Louise Bogan : a mosaic

Source: Journey around my room: the autobiography of Louise Bogan : a mosaic

“Poetry is that magic which consists in awakening sensations with the help of a combination of sounds ... that sorcery by which ideas are necessarily communicated to us, in a definite way, by words which nevertheless do not express them.”

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Author:John Banville

“A poet's work consists less in seeking words for his ideas than in seeking ideas for his words and predominant rhythms.”

Art Ideas Poetry Poet Seeking Rhythm

Author:Paul Valery

“The idea of the person enters poetics where art and reality, or intentionality and circumstance, meet.”

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Book:The Language of Inquiry

Source: The Language of Inquiry

“Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies ideas to that reality.”

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Book:On the naive and sentimental in literature

Source: On the naive and sentimental in literature

“Lakoff's idea is that most of our thought is guided by underlying conceptual mappings between two domains that share some content, that overlap in the sets of their attributes. ... Contrary to the assertions of Lakoff and some of the cognitive metaphor theorists, people can read through to an underlying mapping, but only when the surface metaphor is new to them.”

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Author:Don Paterson

“The idea that a student can write a sonnet or a novel without having a sound understanding about its history, and where it fits into literature as a whole, seems to me to be manifestly daft.”

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Author:Nicholas Royle

“A statue of Apollo in a museum does not seem naked, but attach a tie to its neck and it will strike us as indecent ... The text is one of the components of an artistic work, albeit an extremely important component ... But the artistic effect as a whole arises from comparisons of the text with a complex set of ontological and ideological esthetic ideas.”

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Author:Yuri Lotman

“In case I conk out, this is provisionally what I have to do: I must clarify obscurities; I must make clearer definite ideas or dissociations. I must find a verbal formula to combat the rise of brutality--the principle of order versus the split atom.”

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Author:Ezra Pound

“Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.”

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Author:Paul Engle

“. . . 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

“Everybody has their own idea of what's a poet. Robert Frost, President Johnson, T.S.Eliot, Rudolf Valentino - they're all poets. I like to think of myself as the one who carries the light bulb.”

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Author:Bob Dylan

“You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.”

Ideas Poetry

Author:Stephane Mallarme

“Gel'fand amazed me by talking of mathematics as though it were poetry. He once said about a long paper bristling with formulas that it contained the vague beginnings of an idea which could only hint at and which he had never managed to bring out more clearly. I had always thought of mathematics as being much more straightforward: a formula is a formula, and an algebra is an algebra, but Gel'fand found hedgehogs lurking in the rows of his spectral sequences!”

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Author:Dusa McDuff

“When the ideas or forms we need are banished, we seek their residues wherever we can trace them”

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Book:Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose: Poems Prose Reviews and Criticism

Source: Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose: Poems Prose Reviews and Criticism

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