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“Poetry is the language of a state of crisis.”

States Poetry Language Poet Crisis Poetry Is

Author:Stephane Mallarme

“Admittedly or not, conscious or unconscious, the poetic state, a transcendent experience of life, is what the public is fundamentally seeking through love, crime, drugs, war, or insurrection.”

War States Life Is Poetry Crime Drug Conscious Seeking Unconscious Poetic Transcendent War On Drugs Insurrection

Book:The Theater and Its Double

Source: The Theater and Its Double

“I do not suppose that anyone not a poet can realize the agony of creating a poem. Every nerve, even every muscle, seems strained to the breaking point. The poem will not be denied; to refuse to write it would be a greater torture. It tears its way out of the brain, splintering and breaking its passage, and leaves that organ in the state of a jelly-fish when the task is done.”

Way Writing States Done Seems Would Be Poetry Realizing Brain Greater Tears Poet Creating Tasks Fishes Refuse Torture Muscles Nerves Passages Denied Organs Agony Jelly Point Break

Author:Amy Lowell

“My theory is that poems are written because of a state of emotional irritation. It may be present for some time before the poet is conscious of what is tormenting him. The emotional irritation springs, probably, from subconscious combinations of partly forgotten thoughts and feelings. Coming together, like electrical currents in a thunder storm, they produce a poem. ... the poem is written to free the poet from an emotional burden.”

Source: Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale

“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.”

Ideas Real States Reality Poetry Literature Relate Latter Sentimental Naive

Book:On the naive and sentimental in literature

Source: On the naive and sentimental in literature

“Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought”

States Poetry Poet Wings Flying Unhappiness Verses

Book:The Works of Edmund Spenser: With a Selection of Notes from Various Commentators; and a Glossarial Index: to which is Prefixed, Some Account of the Life of Spenser

Source: The Works of Edmund Spenser: With a Selection of Notes from Various Commentators; and a Glossarial Index: to which is Prefixed, Some Account of the Life of Spenser

“Writing poetry is a state of free float.”

Writing States Poetry Poetry Is Floats Writing Poetry

Book:Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood

Source: Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood

“I take with me Kentucky, embedded in my brain and heart, in my flesh and bone and blood. Since I am Kentucky, and Kentucky is part of me.”

Heart States Poetry Brain Teacher Blood Bones Flesh Usa Embedded Kentucky Heart And Brain

Book:My World

Source: My World

“A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words.”

Kind Mean States Poetry Machines Poetic

Author:Paul Verlaine

“United States: the country where liberty is a statue.”

Country States Poetry United Liberty United States Usa Statues Statue Of Liberty

Author:Nicanor Parra

“It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.”

Writing States Poetry Hell Written Tolerable

Author:Robert Hass

“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.”

Real States Poetry Imagine Poet Degrees Perception Observation Clairvoyant

Author:Wallace Stevens