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Source: Selected Letters

“To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.”

Love Life Motivational Poetry Work Conditions Poet Profession Poetic

Author:Robert Frost

“A truly poetic canvas is an awakened dream.”

Dream Poetry Poetic Canvas Awakened

Author:Rene Magritte

“'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.”

Knows Poetry Poet Sarcastic Poetic

Author:Andre Gide

“Admittedly or not, conscious or unconscious, the poetic state, a transcendent experience of life, is what the public is fundamentally seeking through love, crime, drugs, war, or insurrection.”

War States Life Is Poetry Crime Drug Conscious Seeking Unconscious Poetic Transcendent War On Drugs Insurrection

Book:The Theater and Its Double

Source: The Theater and Its Double

“Once I started writing all the time and interacting with poets, I made a conscious decision to identify myself as a poet. It's funny how much a single word can provide focus and direction. As soon as I claimed that identity, I started clearing more and more space for poetry in my life and applying poetic tools to other areas of my life. The world became a different place, and I witnessed it through different kinds of eyes.”

World Writing Kind Made Different Eye Poetry Space Decision Focus Identity Poet Conscious Areas Tools Poetic Different Kinds Different Place Interacting Clearing Single Word

Author:Tracy K. Smith

“There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.”

Writing Poetry Wealth Money Written Poetic No Money Writers And Writing Novel Writing Writing By Writers Writing Poetry Creativity And Writing Change Your Attitude Writing From Famous Authors Poetry By Famous Poets Prose Writing

Book:Conversations with Robert Graves

Source: Conversations with Robert Graves

“Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.”

Poetry Breathe Poetry Is Poetic Gray Great Poetry

Author:Thomas Gray

“the attempt to control poetry, to subordinate it to extra-poetic ends, constitutes misuse.”

Ends Poetry Extras Poetic Subordinates Misuse

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

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

“The poetic myths are dead; and the poetic image, which is the myth of the individual, reigns in their stead.”

Art Poetry Individual Myth Poetic Reign

Book:The Poetic Image

Source: The Poetic Image

“So we start with an oversignifying reader. Those texts that appear to reward this reader for this additional investment - text that we find exceptionally suggestive, apposite, or musical - are usually adjudged to be 'poetic'. ... The work of the poet is to contribute a text that will firstly invite such a reading; and secondly reward such a reading.”

Art Poetry Reading Poet Reader Investment Rewards Musical Poetic Invites

Author:Don Paterson

“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

“Poetic effect is the peculiar effect of an utterance which achieves most of its relevance through a wide array of weak implicatures.”

Art Poetry Achieve Effects Weak Wide Poetic Peculiar Relevance Utterance

Author:Dan Sperber

“The poetic function is the set towards the message itself, focus on the message for its own sake which by promoting the palpability of signs, deepens the fundamental dichotomy of signs and objects.”

Art Poetry Focus Objects Messages Function Fundamentals Sake Poetic Promoting Dichotomy

Author:Roman Jakobson

“For Mallarmé naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consists in the joy of guessing bit by bit - "le suggérer, voilà le rêve!").”

Joy Poetry Three Literature Bits Pleasure Objects Poetic Quarters Guessing Suppressing

Book:On Literature

Source: On Literature

“In poetic thought, the role of the subconscious is played by euphony.”

Poetry Literature Roles Poetic Subconscious

Author:Joseph Brodsky

“The most prevalent poetic representation of contemporary experience is the mimesis of disorientation by non sequitor.”

Poetry Literature Contemporary Poetic Representation Disorientation Mimesis

Author:Tony Hoagland

“Don't feel guilty if you don't immediately love your stepchildren as you do your own, or as much as you think you should. Everyoneneeds time to adjust to the new family, adults included. There is no such thing as an "instant parent." Actually, no concrete object lies outside of the poetic sphere as long as the poet knows how to use the object properly.”

“Prophetic utterance, like poetic utterance, transforms experience and moves the receiver to new attitudes. The kinds of experience--the recognitions or revelations--out of which both prophecy and poetry emerge, are such as to stir the prophet or poet to speech that may exceed their own known capacities; they are "inspired," they breathe in revelation and breathe out new words; and by so doing they transfer over to the listener or reader a parallel experience, a parallel intensity, which impels that person into new attitudes and new actions.”

“Poetry, at all times, exercises two distinct functions: it may reveal, it may unveil to every eye, the ideal aspects of common thingsor it may actually add to the number of motives poetic and uncommon in themselves, by the imaginative creation of things that are ideal from their very birth.”

May Two Eye Poetry Imagination Common Numbers Creativity Creation Poet Birth Exercise Aspect Ideals Function Add All Time Motive Poetic Imaginative Uncommon

Author:Walter Pater

“The difference between prose logic and poetic thought is simple. The logician uses words as a builder uses bricks, for the unemotional deadness of his academic prose; and is always coining newer, deader words with a natural preference for Greek formations. The poet avoids the entire vocabulary of logic unless for satiric purposes, and treats words as living creatures with a preference for those with long emotional histories dating from mediaeval times. Poetry at its purest is, indeed, a defiance of logic.”

Source: Some speculations on literature, history, and religion

“Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in. Most poets are dead by their late twenties.”

Trying Hands Poetry Literature Results Poet Late Twenties Nine Poetic Vulgar Late Twenties

Author:Robert Graves

“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

“Poetic experience is distinct in nature from mystical experience. Because poetry emanates from the free creativity of the spirit,it is from the very start oriented toward expression, and terminates in a word proffered, it wants to speak; whereas mystical because it emanates from the deepest longing of the spirit bent on knowing, tends of itself toward silence and internal fruition. Poetic experience is busy with the created world and the enigmatic and innumerable relations of existents with one another, not with the Principle of Being.”

World Want Spirit Poetry Speak Silence Principles Creativity Knowing Poet Expression Relation Longing Busy Internals Poetic Mystical Bent Fruition Emanate Enigmatic Mystical Experiences

Author:Jacques Maritain

“The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.”

Poetry Poet Poetic

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“There is nothing more poetic than the truth. He who does not see poetry in it will always be a poor versifier outside of it.”

Doe Truth Poetry Poor Poet Poetic

Author:Multatuli

“There is so much poetry, and yet nothing is more rare than a poetic work. This is what the masses make out of poetical sketches, studies, aphorisms, trends, ruins, and raw material.”

Poetry Study Poet Materials Mass Ruins Poetic Trends Aphorism Raw Materials Make Out

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“In many a poetic work, one gets here and there, instead of representation merely a title indicating that this or that was supposedto be represented here, that the artist has been prevented from doing it and most humbly asks to be kindly excused.”

Has Beens Poetry Artist Asks Poet Titles Poetic Representation Here And There

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.”

“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.”

Love Persons Poetry Passion Language Poet Poetic Language Words Power Of Language Language And Power

Author:W. H. Auden

“You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.”

Poetry Poetic Great Poetry

Author:Joseph Joubert

“Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.”

Source: Selected letters of Don Marquis

“Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.”

Life Inspirational Art Real Poetry Design Creating Garden Poetry Is Poetic Imaginary Toads

Author:Marianne Moore

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”

Writing Poetry Literature Poet Prose Poetic

Book:Intimate Journals

Source: Intimate Journals

“Every healthy man can do without food for two days — but without poetry, never!”

Men Two Poetry Food Healthy Cooking Culinary Poetic Two Days

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.”

Two Poetry Three Written Poet Memorable Poetic Verses Three Times Poetry By Famous Poets

Author:Alfred de Musset

“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”

Reason Poetry Inspiring Healing Wounds Heal Poetic Great Poetry

Author:Novalis

“Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.”

Poetry Beauty Creation Poet Thoughtful Poetry Is Poetic Great Poetry Poetry By Famous Poets

Author:Edgar Allan Poe

“The moment of change is the only poem.”

Moments Poetry Change Healing Poetic Rich Women

Book:The Will to Change: Poems 1968-1970

Source: The Will to Change: Poems 1968-1970

“Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.”

Poetry Breathe Poetic

Book:Out of silence: selected poems

Source: Out of silence: selected poems

“He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.”

Poetry Lines Written Poet Draws Delight Noble Poetry Is Poetic Sentiments Writing Poetry Poetry By Famous Poets

Book:The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).

Source: The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).

“Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.”

Writing Poetry Literature Shadow Asking Dance Poetry Is Poetic Echoes Just Dance Inspirational Dance Short Dance Great Poetry

Author:Carl Sandburg

“Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.”

Poetry Literature Language Poetry Is Poetic Synthesis Biscuits Hyacinths

Author:Carl Sandburg

“A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.”

Men World Way Writing Looks Poetry Poet Poetic Housework

Author:Wallace Stevens

“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.”

Inspirational Facts Used Poetry Language Poet Creating Concerned Poetic Atoms Describing

Author:Niels Bohr

“To have great poets, there must be great audiences.”

Science Poetry History Audience Learning Poet Discovery Poetic Great Poet Great Poetry Poetry By Famous Poets

Book:Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose

Source: Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose

“A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.”

Poetry History Poet Poetic Autobiography Footnotes

Author:Yevgeny Yevtushenko

“God is the perfect poet.”

Poetry Perfect Poet Poetic Godly

Author:Robert Browning

“There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.”

Poetry Realizing Poetic

Book:For the birds

Source: For the birds

“Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.”

Heart Poetry Poet Poetry Is Poetic Great Poet Great Poetry Poetry And Music Poetry By Poets Heart Strings Heartstrings

Author:Dennis Gabor

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