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“The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.”
“Poetry is the art of using language to transcend language.”
“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.”
“Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.”
Source: Selected Writings
“Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.”
“The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep...”
“Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.”
Source: Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series
Source: The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: Poetry 1903-1920, prose, and unpublished writings
“Poetry is the outcome of emotions recollected in tranquility.”
Source: The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion
“The purpose of poetry is to make life complete in itself.”
Source: Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose
“The poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see.”
“Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination.”
Source: The complete prose of Marianne Moore
“Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.”
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.”
“All poetry is difficult to read - The sense of it anyhow.”
Source: Poems
“What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?”
“Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you”
Source: A Life in Letters
“Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.”
“Poetry is the only art people haven't learned to consume like soup.”
“Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.”
“Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music.”
“Poetry is a perfectly reasonable means of overcoming chaos.”