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“The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.”

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Author:Matthew Arnold

“Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.”

School Form Poetry Education Teach Subjects Poetry Is

Book:Conversations with Nikki Giovanni

Source: Conversations with Nikki Giovanni

“In description we hear and feel the absorption of the author in the material. We sense the presence of the creator of the scene. .. This personal absorption is what we mean by 'style.' It is strange that we would choose so oddly surfacey a word - style - for this most soulful aspect of writing. We could, perhaps more exactly, call this relation between consciousness and its subject 'integrity.' What else is the articulation of perception?”

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Author:Patricia Hampl

“I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject.”

Poetry Subjects Poet Poetry Is Wanton Blithe

Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

“That the mere matter of a poem, for instance--its subject, its given incidents or situation; that the mere matter of a picture--the actual circumstances of an event, the actual topography of a landscape--should be nothing without the form, the spirit of the handling, that this form, this mode of handling, should become an end in itself, should penetrate every part of the matter;Mthis is what all art constantly strives after, and achieves in different degrees.”

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Author:Walter Pater

“It is not possible, for a poet, writing in any language, to protect himself from the tragic elements in human life.... [ellipsis in source] Illness, old age, and death--subjects as ancient as humanity--these are the subjects that the poet must speak of very nearly from the first moment that he begins to speak.”

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Author:Louise Bogan

“Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.”

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Author:John Keats

“You I am sure will forgive me for sincerely remarking that you might curb your magnanimity and be more of an artist, and 'load every rift' of your subject with ore.”

Might Poetry Artist Subjects Forgiving Load Sincerely Forgive Me Curb Magnanimity Rift

Author:Bob Dylan

“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

“The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”

“The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm, rhyme, meter, and versification... the subject is exceedingly simple; one tenth of it, possibly may be called ethical; nine tenths, however, appertains to the mathematics.”

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Author:Edgar Allan Poe