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“when a poem says something that could not have been said in any other way, in music, prose, sculpture, movement or paint, then it is poetry.”

Way Has Beens Said Poetry Movement Paint Prose Sculpture

Author:Sybil Marshall

“I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.”

Feels Has Beens Said Book Lasts Poetry Literature Careers Stage Could Have Been

Book:Literary Occasions: Essays

Source: Literary Occasions: Essays

“One of the great criticisms of poets of the past is that they said one thing and did another.”

Said Past Poetry Literature One Thing Poet Criticism They Said

Author:Philip Larkin

“It may be safely affirmed that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition.... They both speak by and to the same organs; the bodies in which both of them are clothed may be said to be of the same substance, their affections are kindred, and almost identical, not necessarily differing even in degree; Poetry sheds no tears "such as Angels weep," but natural and human tears; she can boast of no celestial ichor that distinguishes her vital juices from those of prose; the same human blood circulates through the veins of them both.”

“I said, the poets are there I hear them singing and lying around their round table and around me still.”

Said Stills Lying Poetry Poet Singing Tables Rounds

Author:Anne Sexton

“Poets are sitting in my kitchen. Why do these poets lie? Why do children get children and Did you hear what it said?”

Children Said Lying Poetry Poet Sitting Kitchen

Author:Anne Sexton

“When I said. A rose is a rose is a rose. And then later made that into a ring I made poetry and what did I do I caressed completely caressed and addressed a noun.”

Made Said Poetry Language Poet Rose Rings Nouns

Book:Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein

Source: Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein

“If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.”

Ifs World Said Might Poetry Moved Verses Inquisition

Book:Hardy: Selected Poems

Source: Hardy: Selected Poems

“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

“Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.”

Said Poetry Poet Mysterious Bankers

Book:Essays of Four Decades

Source: Essays of Four Decades

“I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is contemplated till, by a species of reaction, the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was before the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, and does itself actually exist in the mind.”

Mind Doe Said Feelings Poetry Powerful Emotion Subjects Species Disappear Reactions Contemplation Poetry Is Spontaneous Kindred Overflow Tranquillity

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Gel'fand amazed me by talking of mathematics as though it were poetry. He once said about a long paper bristling with formulas that it contained the vague beginnings of an idea which could only hint at and which he had never managed to bring out more clearly. I had always thought of mathematics as being much more straightforward: a formula is a formula, and an algebra is an algebra, but Gel'fand found hedgehogs lurking in the rows of his spectral sequences!”

Long Said Ideas Poetry Found Talking Paper Mathematics Math Mathematical Formulas Amazed Vague Sequence Hints Straightforward Algebra Lurking Hedgehogs

Author:Dusa McDuff

“A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait, as if the genii who inhabit them suspend their deeds until the wayfarer had passed onward; a thought which poetry has celebrated in the dance of the fairies, which breaks off on the approach of human feet.”

Ifs Humans Said Poetry Waiting Break Feet Approach Deeds Woods Forests Fairy Riding Faerie Break Off

Book:The Annotated Emerson

Source: The Annotated Emerson

“'Who's been repeating all that hard stuff to you?' 'I read it in a book,' said Alice. 'But I had some poetry repeated to me, much easier than that, by - Tweedledee, I think it was.' 'As to poetry, you know,' said Humpty Dumpty, stretching out one of his great hands, 'I can repeat poetry as well as other folk, if it comes to that - ' 'Oh, it needn't come to that!' Alice hastily said, hoping to keep him from beginning.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Wells Said I Can Book Hard Hands Poetry Stuff Easier Folks Repeats Stretching Humpty Dumpty

Author:Lewis Carroll

“My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.”

Writing Said Dream Poetry Secret Epic Pretentious Epic Poems

Author:Laurie Anderson

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