Poetry Is Quotes - Page 28

• I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind.

  Julian Jaynes

  Mind, Firsts, Poet

  Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.371, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Poetry begins as the divine speech of the bicameral mind. Then, as the bicameral mind breaks down, there remain prophets.

  Julian Jaynes

  Mind, Speech, Breaking Down

  Julian Jaynes (1990). “The origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Poetry is God's work.

  Katy Lederer

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• Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game.

  Roberto Bolano

  Games, Poetry, One Thing

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• Poetry is a sequence of dots and dashes, spelling depths, crypts, cross-lights, and moon wisps.

  Carl Sandburg

  Moon, Light, Depth

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.317, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Perhaps the author cited is one of those, who, shunning the practice of the world, have taught the world to shun return! whose poetry is too finely spun, whose philosophy is too and mystified for popular demand: perhaps we have experienced feeling which Mr. Wordsworth alludes to, in a poem worthy of simplicity and loneliness of the sentiment "Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure; Sighed to think I read a book Only read perhaps by me!

  Samuel Laman Blanchard

  Lonely, Philosophy, Loneliness

  "Sketches from Life" by Laman Blanchard. "Quotations", 1846.

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• I have always disliked the idea of an arts ghetto in which poetry is kept on a life-support system.

  Tony Harrison

  Art, Ghetto, Support Systems

  1989 In the Observer, 23 Jul.

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• American poetry is always about defining oneself individually,claiming one's right to be different and often to break taboos.

  Diane Wakoski

  Different, Literature, Defining

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• Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms and the latter longer ones, gut this is only in part true.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Ideas, Differences, Literature

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.92, tredition

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• The music that really moves me is music that's written by people where there isn't a lot of money and they're really singing with just their voice and a guitar about their feelings and about their life. Their poetry is relatively simple, in the sense that it's about their soul in jeopardy.

  Anton Yelchin

  Moving, Simple, Guitar

  Source: collider.com

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• Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.

  Donald Hall

  Important, Done, Found

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• Poetry is the report of a nuance between two moments, when people say, 'Listen!' and 'Did you see it?' 'Did you hear it? What was it?'

  Carl Sandburg

  Two, People, Nuance

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.317, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Poetry is a tracing of the trajectories of a finite sound to the infinite points of its echoes.

  Carl Sandburg

  Echoes, Sound, Infinite

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.317, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Poetry is a puppet-show, where riders of skyrockets and divers of sea fathoms gossip about the sixth sense and the fourth dimension.

  Carl Sandburg

  Sea, Gossip, Puppets

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.317, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Poetry is a plan for a slit in the face of a bronze fountain goat and the path of fresh drinking water.

  Carl Sandburg

  Drinking, Water, Goats

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.317, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Poetry is a slipknot tightened around a time-beat of one thought, two thoughts, and a last interweaving thought there is not yet a number for.

  Carl Sandburg

  Two, Numbers, Lasts

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.317, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Poetry is a fossil rock-print of a fin and a wing, with an illegible oath between.

  Carl Sandburg

  Rocks, Wings, Fossils

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Poetry is an exhibit of one pendulum connecting with other and unseen pendulums inside and outside the one seen.

  Carl Sandburg

  Unseen, Pendulums, Exhibits

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Poetry is a sky dark with a wild-duck migration.

  Carl Sandburg

  Dark, Sky, Ducks

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Poetry is any page from a sketchbook of outlines of a doorknob with thumb-prints of dust, blood, dreams.

  Carl Sandburg

  Dream, Dust, Blood

  Carl Sandburg (1928). “Smoke and steel: Slabs of the sunburnt West. Good morning, America”, Harcourt, Brace and World

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• Poetry is a type-font design for an alphabet of fun, hate, love, death.

  Carl Sandburg

  Fun, Hate, Design

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Poetry is the cipher key to the five mystic wishes packed in a hollow silver bullet fed to a flying fish.

  Carl Sandburg

  Keys, Flying, Wish

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Poetry is a theorem of a yellow-silk handkerchief knotted with riddles, sealed in a balloon tied to the tail of a kite flying in a white wind against a blue sky in spring.

  Carl Sandburg

  Spring, Blue, Wind

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Poetry is a dance music measuring buck-and-wing follies along with the gravest and stateliest dead-marches.

  Carl Sandburg

  Wings, Bucks, March

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Poetry is a mock of a cry at finding a million dollars and a mock of a laugh at losing it.

  Carl Sandburg

  Laughing, Dollars, Losing

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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