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“For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.”

Writing Real Jobs Poetry Prose Poetry Is Evasion Real Jobs

“Men of real talents in Arms have commonly approved themselves patrons of the liberal arts and friends to the poets, of their own as well as former times. In some instances by acting reciprocally, heroes have made poets, and poets heroes.”

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Book:George Washington Remembers: Reflections on the French and Indian War

Source: George Washington Remembers: Reflections on the French and Indian War

“Joy is a part of my process. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that poetry, as a practice, necessitates a sense of joy. It's exhilarating to come into contact with the things we write into being. And a real sense of play and abandon even when we are relying on hard-won technique, and even when the aim is deadly serious. How often do we get the excuse to stop, think, and then stop thinking altogether and try to listen to what sits behind our outside of our thoughts? Poets are lucky.”

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Author:Tracy K. Smith

“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

“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.”

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

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

“I have no connections here; only gusty collisions, rootless seedlings forced into bloom, that collapse. ... I am the Visiting Poet: a real unicorn, a wind-up plush dodo, a wax museum of the Movement. People want to push the buttons and see me glow.”

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Author:Marge Piercy

“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.”

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Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“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

“"Glorious, stirring sight!" murmured Toad. . . . "The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here today - in next week tomorrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumped- always somebody else's horizons! O bliss! O poop-poop! O my! O my!"”

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Author:Kenneth Grahame

“The reader who is illuminated is, in a real sense, the poem.”

Real Poetry Reader

Author:H. M. Tomlinson

“I don't see how poetry can ever be easy... Real poetry, the thick, dense, intense, complicated stuff that lives and endures, requires blood sweat; blood and sweat are essential elements in poetry as well as behind it.”

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Book:Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey

Source: Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey

“Perhaps there is a degree of perception at which what is real and what is imagines are one: a state of clairvoyant observation, accessible or possibly accessible to the poet or, say, the acutest poet.”

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Author:Wallace Stevens

“In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.”

World Real Would Be Poetry Poet University Workshops

Author:James Broughton

“Poetry without truth, is like a rose without thorns. Still pretty, But sometime the real beauty comes from the things that can make us bleed.”

Real Truth Pain Poetry Emotion Blood Rose Thorns

Author:Cody Edward Lee Miller

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