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“A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined not to scrape his bottom on anything solid. A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.”

Littles Doe Poetry Pleasure Clear Poet Approach Bottom Dare Determined Remove Veils Trifles Mariners

Author:E. B. White

“I approach poetry and spirituality like literary nitroglycerin -- a little can do a lot and you better damn well be careful with it.”

Wells Littles Poetry Spirituality Can Do Approach Careful Damn Be Careful

Book:The Cold Dish: A Longmire Mystery

Source: The Cold Dish: A Longmire Mystery

“All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.”

Littles Whole Poetry Lyrical

Book:Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)

“It's a little mad, but I believe I am many people. When I am writing a poem, I feel I am the person who should have written it.”

People Feels Should Writing Believe Littles Persons Self Poetry I Believe Written Should Have Mad

Author:Anne Sexton

“The poem is always the last resort. In it the poet makes a world in little, and finds peace, even though, under complete focused emotion, the evocation be far more bitter than reality, or far more lovely.”

World Littles Reality Lasts Poetry Emotion Poet Focused Lovely Bitter Resorts Finding Peace

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

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

“a poem is like a wine glass in which you can hold up a little bit of reality and taste it.”

Littles Reality Poetry Bits Taste Little Bit Wine Glasses Wine Glass

Author:Gwen Harwood

“Most poets who have little or nothing to say are concerned primarily with the way in which they say it ... if it is true that the style of a poem and the poem itself are one, ... it may be ... that the poets who have little or nothing to say are, or will be, the poets that matter.”

Ifs Way May Littles Art Matter Poetry Style Poet Concerned

Book:Collected Poetry and Prose

Source: Collected Poetry and Prose

“The poem, in a sense, is no more or less than a little machine for remembering itself ... Poetry is therefore primarily a commemorative act.”

Littles Art Remember Poetry Machines Poetry Is

Author:Don Paterson

“I've learned that my readings of others' work often has little connection to their intentions. This doesn't mean that my response is wrong, and it doesn't make the author's views less right. Poets, like their poems, are "hopeful monsters".”

Mean Littles Poetry Reading Literature Views Poet Connections Intention Response Monsters I've Learned Hopeful

Book:Feeling as a Foreign Language: The Good Strangeness of Poetry

Source: Feeling as a Foreign Language: The Good Strangeness of Poetry

“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

“He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child. He must take to pieces the whole web of his mind. He must unlearn much of that knowledge which has perhaps constituted hitherto his chief title to superiority. His very talents will be a hindrance to him.”

Mind Firsts Children Littles Whole Poetry Pieces Talent Poet Chiefs Titles Enlightened Aspire Superiority Hindrance Great Poet Unlearn

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child.”

Firsts Children Littles Poetry Poet Enlightened Aspire Great Poet

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“England still waits for the supreme moment of her literature--for the great poet who shall voice her, or, better still, for the thousand little poets whose voices shall pass into our common talk.”

Littles Stills Moments Poetry Literature Waiting Voice Common Poet Thousand England Supreme Great Poet

Book:Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)

“The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.”

Men Littles Poetry Capacity Myth Meaningful Poetry Is Meaningful Life Great Poetry

Author:Robert Penn Warren

“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

“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.”

Men Writing May Littles Ends Light Poetry Capacity Myth Meaningful Meaning Of Life Poetry Is Meaningful Life Life Means Great Poetry What Is Poetry

Author:Robert Penn Warren

“In this poor body, composed of one hundred bones and nine openings, is something called spirit, a flimsy curtain swept this way and that by the slightest breeze. It is spirit, such as it is, which led me to poetry, at first little more than a pastime, then the full business of my life. There have been times when my spirit, so dejected, almost gave up the quest, other times when it was proud, triumphant. So it has been from the very start, never finding peace with itself, always doubting the worth of what it makes.”

Way Writing Firsts Littles Has Beens Body Spirit Poetry Poor Doubt Proud Findings Hundred Bones Nine Opening Quests Breeze Curtains Gave Up Finding Peace Triumphant Pastime Dejected

Author:Matsuo Basho

“I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.”

Littles Sometimes Poetry Wish Ignorance Conversation Wish You Cramps I Wish You Would

Author:Anthony Hope

“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

“Her eyes the glowworm lend thee, The shooting stars attend thee; And the elves also, Whose little eyes glow Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee.”

Littles Eye Poetry Stars Fire Thee Shooting Sparks Her Eyes Shooting Star

Author:Robert Herrick

“The truth, I am convinced, is that there is no longer a poetical audience among the higher class of minds, that moral, political, and physical science have entirely withdrawn from poetry the attention of all whose attention is worth having; and that the poetical reading public being composed of the mere dregs of the intellectual community, the most sufficing passport to their favour must rest on the mixture of a little easily-intelligible portion of mawkish sentiment with an absolute negation of reason and knowledge.”

Source: Four Ages of Poetry: Shelley's Defence of Poetry. Browning's Essay on Shelley. Edited by H.F.B. Brett-Smith

“And hence the poet must seek to be essentially anonymous, He must die a little death each morning, He must swallow his toad and study his vomit as Baudelaire studied la charogne of Jeanne Duval.”

Littles Poetry Dies Morning Study Poet Toads Baudelaire

Book:Last & Lost Poems

Source: Last & Lost Poems

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