Poetry Is Quotes - Page 18

• [My poetry is] a way of coming to grips with reality . . . a way of discovery and definition. It is a way of solving for the unknowns.

  Robert Hayden

  Reality, Discovery, Definitions

  Robert Earl Hayden (1984). “Collected Prose”, p.27, University of Michigan Press

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• Poetry is very crafted. You can't have too many words. It needs compression. It has to be spare, just the right number of words.

  Barbara Feldon

  Numbers, Needs, Compression

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• Reciting poetry isn't acting, it's memory work. Actor's are deceivers. People who pretend to be something else for a living aren't right in the head.

  Hetty King

  Memories, People, Acting

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• Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, 'I will compose poetry.' The greatest poet even cannot say it; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness...and the conscious portions of our natures are unprophetic either of its approach or its departure.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Determination, Men, Wind

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2006). “A Defence of Poetry: an Essay: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.44, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Ho Kyuns poetry is in the tradition of his master, the incomparable Tu Fu, while remaining fully his own. Writing nine centuries later, Hos poetry strikes many parallels--the experiences of war and exile and constant struggle-- and his voice is similarly humane. This is rich and enlightening reading.

  Sam Hamill

  War, Reading, Struggle

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• For Aliki Barnstone, poetry seems a natural medium. The vision and cadences of these poems suggest a sensibility for which poetry is as inevitable as breathing or eating.

  Robert Pinsky

  Breathing, Vision, Cadence

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• The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Children, Ideas, Guessing

  "The Victorian Age in Literature". Book by G. K. Chesterton, Ch I: The Victorian Compromise and Its Enemies, p. 24, 1913.

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• Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him.

  Jose Marti

  People, Inspire, Bards

  "Poesia". Essay by Jose Marti, 1891.

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• My poems are like a dagger
  Sprouting flowers from the hilt;
  My poetry is like a fountain
  Sprinkling streams of coral water.

  Jose Marti

  Flower, Water, Daggers

  "Simple Verses". Book by Jose Marti, 1891.

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• Poetry is the Devil's wine.

  Saint Augustine

  Wine, Poetry, Devil

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• Ennius was the father of Roman poetry, because he first introduced into Latin the Greek manner and in particular the hexameter metre.

  Quintus Ennius

  Father, Latin, Greek

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• The whole history of modern poetry is a continuous commentary on the short text of philosophy: every art should become science, and every science should become art; poetry and philosophy should be united.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Art, Philosophy, Philosophical

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• Since poetry is infinitely valuable, I do not understand why it should be more valuable than this or that which is also infinitelyvaluable. There are artists who perhaps do not think art to be too great, for this is impossible, and yet they are not free enough to be able to rise above their own best accomplishments.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Art, Thinking, Accomplishment

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• Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Poetry, Literature, Natural

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• Poetry is the sister of Sorrow. Every man that suffers and weeps is a poet; every tear is a verse, and every heart a poem.

  Marc-Andre Fleury

  Heart, Men, Poetry

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• Poetry is a string of words that parades without a permit.

  Linda Hogan

  Poetry, Parades, Permit

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• Poetry is a sleep-maker for that which sits up late in us listening for the footfall of the future on to-day's doorstep.

  Laura Riding

  Sleep, Poetry, Listening

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• Aviation is poetry ... It's the finest kind of moving around, you know, just as poetry is the finest way of using words.

  Jessie Redmon Fauset

  Moving, Flying, Way

  Jessie Redmon Fauset (2013). “Comedy: American Style”, p.108, Courier Corporation

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• Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Self, Helping, Sufi

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• A story of particular facts is a mirror which obscures and distorts that which should be beautiful; poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which it distorts.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Beautiful, Mirrors, Poetry

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1840). “A defence of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the Athenians. Preface to the Banquet of Plato. The banquet”, p.33

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• Beer is prose. Wine is poetry.

  Jennifer Rosen

  Wine, Beer, Prose

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• I feel that the task of criticizing my poetry is best left to others (i.e. critics) and would much rather have it take place after I am dead. If at all.

  Margaret Atwood

  Poetry, Tasks, Criticize

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

  Vanna Bonta

  Life, Poetry, Way

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• Poetry is a subset of a Cosmos, which in itself, is a poem.

  Vanna Bonta

  Poetry, Cosmos

  "The Cosmos as a Poem". Book by Vanna Bonta, 2010.

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• Poetry is our heart, our spirit, our soul. Call it whatever; without it, everything else is nothing but hardware.

  Vanna Bonta

  Heart, Poetry, Soul

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