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“Poetry today is easier to write but harder to remember.”

Writing Today Remember Poetry Easier Harder

Author:Stanley Kunitz

“No really sensible person ever remembers enough poetry to recite it.”

Persons Enough Remember Poetry Sensible

Author:E. W. Howe

“Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth. Also, it began through the process of seeing, and feeling, and hearing, and smelling, and touching, and then remembering--I mean remembering in words--what these perceptual experiences were like, while trying to describe the endless invisible fears and desires of our inner lives.”

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Book:A Poetry Handbook

Source: A Poetry Handbook

“The universe of poetry is the universe of emotional truth. Our material is in the way we feel and the way we remember.”

Way Feels Remember Poetry Universe Emotional Materials Poetry Is

Author:Muriel Rukeyser

“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

“Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?”

Life Remember Poetry Taught Poet Remember When

Book:Your Native Land, Your Life

Source: Your Native Land, Your Life

“Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.”

Remember Poetry Poetry Is

Book:Lectures on the English Poets

Source: Lectures on the English Poets

“Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land; When you can no more hold me by the hand, Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay. Remember me when no more day by day You tell me of our future that you planned: Only remember me; you understand It will be late to counsel then or pray. Yet if you should forget me for a while And afterward remember, do not grieve: For if the darkness and corruption leave A vestige of the thoughts that once I had, Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.”

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Author:Christina Rossetti

“I think that were beginning to remember that the first poets didn't come out of a classroom, that poetry began when somebody walked off of a savanna or out of a cave and looked up at the sky with wonder and said, "Ahhh." That was the first poem.”

Thinking Firsts Said Remember Poetry Wonder Sky Poet Poetry Is Classroom Caves Savanna

Author:Lucille Clifton

“Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.”

Knows Writing Remember Poetry Pleasure Poetry Is Making Love Writing Poetry

Book:This Business of Living

Source: This Business of Living

“It is not the poet's business to save man's soul but to make it worth saving . . . However, few poets have written with a clear theory of art for art's sake, it is by that theory alone that their work has been, or can be, judged; -and rightly so if we remember that art embraces all life and all humanity, and sees in the temporary and fleeting doctrines of conservative or revolutionary only the human grandeur or passion that inspires them.”

“For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.”

Knows Writing Art Ends Remember Poetry Surprise Delight Discovering Initials

Author:Robert Frost

“Fax me a fact and I'll telegram a hologram or telephone the son of man and tell him he is done. Leave a message on his answering machine telling him there are none. God and I are one. Times moon. Times star. Times sun. The factor is me. You remember me.”

Source: The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop

“I remember when you were born, it was dawn and the storm settled near my belly. And I rolled in the grass and spit out the gas, and I lit a match and the void went flash. And the sky split and the planets hit, balls of jade dropped and existence stopped.”

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Book:Patti Smith Collected Lyrics, 1970–2015

Source: Patti Smith Collected Lyrics, 1970–2015

“Let us remember to always rediscover one another because we are forever changing.”