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“Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.”

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“My poetry has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.”

Book:My soul's high song: the collected writings of Countee Cullen, voice of the Harlem Renaissance

Source: My soul's high song: the collected writings of Countee Cullen, voice of the Harlem Renaissance

“It is at once by way of poetry and through poetry, as with music, that the soul glimpses splendors from beyond the tomb; and when an exquisite poem brings one's eyes to the point of tears, those tears are not evidence of an excess of joy, they are witness far more to an exacerbated melancholy, a disposition of the nerves, a nature exiled among imperfect things, which would like to possess, without delay, a paradise revealed on this very same earth.”

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Author:Charles Baudelaire

“If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry.”

Ifs Way Children Would Be Poetry Certain Masters Ordinary Critics Piety Dullness

Author:Edith Sitwell

“poetry ... is another way to be hurled straight into the heart of God.”

Way Heart Poetry Poetry Is Another Way

Book:Inspirational Writings of Marjorie Holmes Deluxe Jacketed Edition

Source: Inspirational Writings of Marjorie Holmes Deluxe Jacketed Edition

“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.”

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Author:Amy Lowell

“Poetry is the most concentrated form of literature; it is the most emotionalized and powerful way in which thought can be presented.”

Way Form Poetry Literature Powerful Poetry Is

Book:Tendencies in Modern American Poetry

Source: Tendencies in Modern American Poetry

“For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing.”

World Way Poetry Poet Breathing

Book:Saturday's Child: A Memoir

Source: Saturday's Child: A Memoir

“Poetry interprets in two ways: it interprets by expressing, with magical felicity, the physiognomy and movements of the outward world; and it interprets by expressing, with inspired conviction, the ideas and laws of the inward world of man's moral and spiritual nature. In other words, poetry is interpretative both by having natural magic in it, and by having moral profundity.”

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Book:Essays in Criticism

Source: Essays in Criticism

“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

“One way of ending the poem is to turn it back on itself, like a serpent with its tail in its mouth.”

Way Poetry Turns Mouths One Way Tails Serpent

Author:Maxine Kumin

“What is poetry? Do not enquire. The secret dies by prying. How does the heart beat? I fainted when I saw it on the screen, opening and closing like a flower ... Poetry is like this, it is life moving, terrible, vivid. Look the other way when you write, or you might faint.”

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Author:Elizabeth Smart

“when a poem says something that could not have been said in any other way, in music, prose, sculpture, movement or paint, then it is poetry.”

Way Has Beens Said Poetry Movement Paint Prose Sculpture

Author:Sybil Marshall

“Art as a whole is a riddle. Another way of putting this is to say that art expresses something while at the same time hiding it.”

Way Art Whole Poetry Hiding Another Way Riddle

Author:Theodor Adorno

“Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation.”

Way Humans Art Poetry Offers Highest Standards Operations Poetry Is Human Experience Concise Conveying

Book:On Grief And Reason: Essays

Source: On Grief And Reason: Essays

“Most poets who have little or nothing to say are concerned primarily with the way in which they say it ... if it is true that the style of a poem and the poem itself are one, ... it may be ... that the poets who have little or nothing to say are, or will be, the poets that matter.”

Ifs Way May Littles Art Matter Poetry Style Poet Concerned

Book:Collected Poetry and Prose

Source: Collected Poetry and Prose

“Poetry offers a way of understanding and expressing existence that is fundamentally different from conceptual thought.”

Way Art Different Poetry Understanding Existence Offers

Author:Dana Gioia

“Poetry is that magic which consists in awakening sensations with the help of a combination of sounds ... that sorcery by which ideas are necessarily communicated to us, in a definite way, by words which nevertheless do not express them.”

Way Art Ideas Helping Poetry Sound Magic Awakening Combination Poetry Is Sensations Nevertheless Definite Sorcery

Author:John Banville

“One way or another, all the poets of the thirties and forties reacted to Auden, either by rejecting him or trying to absorb him.”

Way Trying Poetry Literature Poet One Way Forty Rejecting Auden

Book:Poetry Notebook: 2006–2014

Source: Poetry Notebook: 2006–2014

“I work to loud music - hard-rock stuff like AC/DC, Guns 'n Roses, and Metallica have always been particular favorites - but for me the music is just another way of shutting the door.”

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Book:On writing: a memoir of the craft

Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft

“All think what other people think; All know the man their neighbor knows. Lord, what would they say Did their Catullus walk that way?”

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Author:William Butler Yeats

“Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anesthetic: It is the only medium of art I can think of which appeals directly to none of our five senses. The oral and folk tradition in narrative made use of verse or live-voice dynamics, embellished by gesture and expression--a kind of rudimentary theater--as do the best raconteurs of all times. Commonly there was musical accompaniment as well: a kind of one-man theater-of-mixed-means.”

Source: The Friday Book: Essays and Other Nonfiction

“Everywhere we are told that our human resources are all to be used, that our civilization itself means the uses of everything it has - the inventions, the histories, every scrap of fact. But there is one kind of knowledge - infinitely precious, time-resistant more than monuments, here to be passed between the generations in any way it may be: never to be used. And that is poetry.”

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Author:Muriel Rukeyser

“Poetry is the most direct and simple means of expressing oneself in words: the most primitive nations have poetry, but only quitewell developed civilizations can produce good prose. So don't think of poetry as a perverse and unnatural way of distorting ordinary prose statements: prose is a much less natural way of speaking than poetry is. If you listen to small children, and to the amount of chanting and singsong in their speech, you'll see what I mean.”

“The way in which modern German poetry follows theories reminds me of pupils who, scolded by their teacher for their insubordination, justify themselves by saying that they invented new rules of propriety according to which they are quite well- behaved.”

Way Wells Poetry Teacher Modern Poet Theory Justify Aesthetics Pupils Propriety Scolded Insubordination

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“I have never felt a placard and a poem are in any way similar.”

Way Poetry Politics Felt Poet

Author:Kristin Hunter

“Poetry isn't an activity, it's a way life is lived.”

Way Life Life Is Poetry Activity Poetry Is

Author:Vanna Bonta

“Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.”

Way Poetry Empty Profession Baskets

Author:Mary Oliver

“A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.”

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Author:Wallace Stevens

“The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say”

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Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?”

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Author:Emily Dickinson

“There are two ways of disliking poetry, one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.”

Way Two Poetry Dislike Pope Two Ways

Author:Oscar Wilde

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”

“Poetry lies its way to the truth.”

Way Lying Poetry

Author:John Ciardi

“Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling. A fine poem will seize your imagination intellectually - that is, when you reach it, you will reach it intellectually too - but the way is through emotion, through what we call feeling.”

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Author:Muriel Rukeyser

“Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen.”

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Author:Fleur Adcock

“Poetry must find ways of breaking distance.... all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds.”

Way Made Poetry Language Break Distance Dialect

Book:Yo-yo boing!

Source: Yo-yo boing!

“I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.”

Way Poetry Lost Prose Verses Translations

Book:Conversations on the Craft of Poetry

Source: Conversations on the Craft of Poetry

“Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves.”

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Book:Some speculations on literature, history, and religion

Source: Some speculations on literature, history, and religion

“Abstract reason, formerly the servant of practical human reasons, has everywhere become its master, and denies poetry any excuse for existence. Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves. Of never acquiescing in a fraud; of never accepting the secondary-rate in poetry, painting, music, love, friends. Of safeguarding our poetic institutions against the encroachments of mechanized, insensate, inhumane, abstract rationality.”

“In this poor body, composed of one hundred bones and nine openings, is something called spirit, a flimsy curtain swept this way and that by the slightest breeze. It is spirit, such as it is, which led me to poetry, at first little more than a pastime, then the full business of my life. There have been times when my spirit, so dejected, almost gave up the quest, other times when it was proud, triumphant. So it has been from the very start, never finding peace with itself, always doubting the worth of what it makes.”

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Author:Matsuo Basho

“In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it is the exact opposite.”

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Author:Paul Dirac

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.”

“The field is a halfway house, halfway between the detail of those intimately known places and the ignorance of a landscape view ... The essence of a field is that the cultural accommodates the natural there. The human being makes room for and makes use of those organisms that are not him. In that way the field is a poem to symbiosis, and a human contract with the natural.”

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Author:Adam Nicolson

“It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound-that he will never get over it.”

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Author:Robert Frost

“One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.”

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Author:Paul Muldoon

“Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton.”

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Book:True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival

Source: True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival

“I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.”

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Author:Edith Södergran

“Poetry is only secondarily about words. Primarily, it is about truth. I dealt with the Ding an Sich, the substance behind the shadow, weaving powerful concepts, similes, and connections the way an engineer would raise a skyscraper with the whiskered-alloy skeleton being constructed long before the glass and plastic and chromaluminum appears.”

Source: The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion

“Memory exercised in a particular way is a natural gift of poetic genius. The poet above all else, is a person who never forgets certain sense impressions which he has experienced and which he can relive again as though with all their original freshness.”

Way Persons Poetry Certain Natural Memories Forget Particular Poet Genius Originals Impression Poetic Never Forget Freshness Natural Gifts

Author:Stephen Spender

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