“No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern.”
— Thomas Harrison
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A life is not sufficiently elevated for
“A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.”
— Mark Strand
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Some say they see poetry in my
“Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.”
— Georges Seurat
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows,
“Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.”
— Edmund Burke
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America was based on a poetic vision.
“America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?”
— Azar Nafisi
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The Bible should be taught, but emphatically
“The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.”
— Richard Dawkins
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But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the
“But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.”
— Lascelles Abercrombie
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A lyric, it is true, is the
“A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being.”
— John Drinkwater
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I wonder if I ever thought of
“I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader… I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even in my early 30s, I would write for my wife Janice… mainly for my poet friends and my wife, who was very smart about poetry.”
— Kenneth Koch
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Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it
“Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.”
— Vincent Van Gogh
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Poetry is ordinary language raised to the
“Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.”
— Paul Engle
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