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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

“The universe of poetry is the universe of emotional truth. Our material is in the way we feel and the way we remember.”

Way Feels Remember Poetry Universe Emotional Materials Poetry Is

Author:Muriel Rukeyser

“You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live.”

“We tend to be so bombarded with information, and we move so quickly, that there's a tendency to treat everything on the surface level and process things quickly. This is antithetical to the kind of openness and perception you have to have to be receptive to poetry.poetry seems to exist in a parallel universe outside daily life in America.”

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Author:Rita Dove

“Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.”

Inspirational Poetry Time Choices Universe Decision Minutes Dare Reverse Indecision Revision Choices And Decisions

Book:The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems

Source: The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems

“A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.”

World Writing Has Beens Art Helping Reality Poetry Universe Creativity Shapes Contribution

Book:On the Air with Dylan Thomas: The Broadcasts

Source: On the Air with Dylan Thomas: The Broadcasts

“Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God”

Love Poetry Universe Love Is Expansion Reduction

Author:Honore de Balzac

“As a guiding principle I believe that every poem must be its own sole freshly created universe, and therefore have no belief n 'tradition' or a common myth-kitty or casual allusions in poems to other poems or poets, which last I find unpleasantly like the talk of literary understrappers letting you see they know the right people.”

People Knows Believe Lasts Poetry Universe Belief I Believe Common Principles Poet Tradition Myth Sole Casual Allusion Kitties Guiding Principles

Author:Philip Larkin

“"I know perfectly well that at this moment the whole universe is listening to us," Jean Giraudoux wrote in The Madwoman of Chaillot, "and that every word we say echoes to the remotest star."That poetic paranoia is a perfect description of what the Sun, as a gravitational lens, could do for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.”

Knows Wells Whole Moments Poetry Universe Stars Perfect Sun Listening Description Poetic Echoes Lenses Paranoia Extraterrestrial

Author:Frank Drake

“The reverie we intend to study is poetic reverie. This is a reverie which poetry puts on the right track, the track an expanding consciousness follows. This reverie is written, or, at least, promises to be written. It is already facing the great universe of the blank page. Then images begin to compose and fall into place.”

Poetry Fall Universe Consciousness Study Written Promise Pages Track Poetic Blank Expanding Reverie Fall Into Place Blank Pages Right Track

Author:Gaston Bachelard

“You are a Universe of Universes And your Soul a source of Songs.”

Love Inspirational Soul Poetry Song Universe Source Your Soul I Love You Inspirational Art

Author:Ruben Dario

“He sank back into his black-and-white world, his immobile world of inanimate drawings that had been granted the secret of motion, his death-world with its hidden gift of life. But that life was a deeply ambiguous life, a conjurer's trick, a crafty illusion based on an accidental property of the retina, which retained an image for a fraction of a second after the image was no longer present. On this frail fact was erected the entire structure of the cinema, that colossal confidence game. The animated cartoon was a far more honest expression of the cinematic illusion than the so-called realistic film, because the cartoon reveled in its own illusory nature, exulted in the impossible--indeed it claimed the impossible as its own, exalted it as its own highest end, found in impossibility, in the negation of the actual, its profoundest reason for being. The animated cartoon was nothing but the poetry of the impossible--therein lay its exhilaration and its secret melancholy. For this willful violation of the actual, while it was an intoxicating release from the constriction of things, was at the same time nothing but a delusion, an attempt to outwit mortality. As such it was doomed to failure. And yet it was desperately important to smash through the constriction of the actual, to unhinge the universe and let the impossible stream in, because otherwise--well, otherwise the world was nothing but an editorial cartoon.”

Source: Little Kingdoms

“What is this love that makes me see beauty, and makes every beautiful thing bring you back to me? What is this love that makes me declare 'I love you' even though I uttered it only a moment ago? What is this love that keeps growing even when my chest is sore and it hurts to love you any more? Tell me: How am I to find what this love is when it was the one to find you, me, this verse, and this universe?”