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“Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is always going to engage and compel us. We're involved in a mystery. Poetry uses words to put us in touch with that mystery. We're always going to need it.”

Needs Humans Sometimes Use Poetry Loses Audience Mystery Involved Essentials Wave Appeals Being Human

Author:Edward Hirsch

“Sometimes my poetry is an attempt to keep off existential terror; sometimes it is a grappling with philosophical problems; sometimes just fun.”

Sometimes Problem Poetry Fun Philosophical Terror Poetry Is Existential Grappling

Author:Gwen Harwood

“I suggest that what artists do in all media can be summarized as deliberately performing the operations that occur instinctively during a ritualized behaviour: they simplify or formalize, repeat (sometimes with variation), exaggerate, and elaborate in both space and time for the purpose of attracting attention and provoking and manipulating emotional response.”

Art Sometimes Poetry Purpose Artist Space Attention Media Emotional Response Operations Performing Repeats Behaviour Provoking Time And Space Variation Simplify Emotional Response

Author:Ellen Dissanayake

“That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.”

World Sometimes Poetry Poet Lonely Loud

Book:George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit

Source: George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit

“But sometimes everything I write with the threadbare art of my eye seems a snapshot”

Writing Art Sometimes Seems Eye Poetry Poet Snapshots

Book:Robert Lowell: a tribute

Source: Robert Lowell: a tribute

“Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out. Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.”

May Sometimes Poetry Understanding Perfect Pleasure Draws Poetic

Author:A. E. Housman

“I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.”

Littles Sometimes Poetry Wish Ignorance Conversation Wish You Cramps I Wish You Would

Author:Anthony Hope

“I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.”

Sometimes Poetry Kindergarten Fidgeting

Author:Howard Nemerov

“Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth is sometimes perilous, naturally, since he's a high-handed old poem himself, but he's also sublime - and who goes to poetry for safety anyway.”

Sometimes Poetry Safety Sublime

Book:The genius of haiku: readings from R.H. Blyth on poetry, life, and Zen

Source: The genius of haiku: readings from R.H. Blyth on poetry, life, and Zen

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