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“The three ingredients of poetry: the mystery of the universe, spiritual curiosity, the energy of language.”

Spiritual Poetry Universe Three Energy Language Mystery Curiosity Ingredients

Book:Blue Pastures

Source: Blue Pastures

“For Mallarmé naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consists in the joy of guessing bit by bit - "le suggérer, voilà le rêve!").”

Joy Poetry Three Literature Bits Pleasure Objects Poetic Quarters Guessing Suppressing

Book:On Literature

Source: On Literature

“The immediate success of the war poem anthologies ... proved that the war had aroused in a new public an ear for contemporary verse ... There has never before, in the world's history, been an epoch which has tolerated and even welcomed such a flood of verse as has been poured forth over Great Britain during the last three years.”

World Years Has Beens War Lasts Poetry Three Literature Ears Contemporary Britain Three Years Verses Flood Great Britain Epoch Anthology

Author:Edmund Gosse

“Poetry and code - and mathematics - make us read differently from other forms of writing. Written poetry makes the silent reader read three kinds of pattern at once; code moves the reader from a static to an active, interactive and looped domain; while algebraic topology allows us to read qualitative forms and their transformations.”

Writing Kind Moving Form Poetry Three Literature Written Reader Transformation Mathematics Silent Patterns Active Code Domain Static Interactive Qualitative Topology

Author:Stephanie Strickland

“The man who invented Eskimo Pie made a million dollars, so one is told, but E.E. Cummings, whose verse has been appearing off andon for three years now, and whose experiments should not be more appalling to those interested in poetry than the experiment of surrounding ice-cream with a layer of chocolate was to those interested in soda fountains, has hardly made a dent in the doughy minds of our so-called poetry lovers.”

“Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.”

Two Poetry Three Written Poet Memorable Poetic Verses Three Times Poetry By Famous Poets

Author:Alfred de Musset

“Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!”

Writing Years Poetry Three Thousand Three Years

Author:Ray Bradbury

“One had a lovely face, And two or three had charm, But charm and face were in vain. Because the mountain grass Cannot keep the form Where the mountain hare has lain.”

Two Faces Form Poetry Three Mountain Lovely Vain Grass Charm Hares Lovely Face

Book:The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

“I have a new method of poetry. All you got to do is look over your notebooks... or lay down on a couch, and think of anything that comes into your head, especially the miseries. Then arrange in lines of two, three or four words each, don't bother about sentences, in sections of two, three or four lines each.”

Thinking Looks Two Poetry Three Lines Four Method Lays Misery Sentences Bother Over You Sections Couches Notebook

Author:Allen Ginsberg