Poetry Quotes
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Poetry and the arts can’t exist in America. Mere exposure to the arts does nothing for a mentality which is incorrigibly dialectical. The vital tensions and nutritive action of ideogram remain inaccessible to this state of mind.
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It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.
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somewhere within sight of the tree of poetry that is eternity wearing the green leaves of time .
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Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn’t know what else to be.
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To translate poetry, one has to possess some art, at the very least the art of stylistic re-embodiment.
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Sholeh Wolpé poetry proves to be rumination, prayer, song.
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Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.
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I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.
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Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.
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When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.
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Poetry arises from the desire to get beyond the finite and the historical - the human world of violence and difference - and to reach the transcendent or divine. You’re moved to write a poem… But as soon as you move from that impulse to the actual poem, the song of the infinite is compromised by the finitude of its terms. In a dream your verses can defeat time, your words can shake off the history of their usage, you can represent what can’t be represented, but when you wake, when you rejoin your friends around the fire, you’re back in the human world with its inflexible laws and logic.
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Poetry had everything to teach me about life.
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I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them.
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Poetry and music I have banished, But the stupidity Of root, shoot, blossom or clay Makes no demand. I bend my body to the spade Or grope with a dirty hand.
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I used to hold a fiery wind and I tried to determine the direction where poetry would fly.
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You should check out William Shatner's album The Transformed Man. It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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You must believe: a poem is a holy thing - a good poem, that is. The poem, even a short time after being written, seems no miracle; unwritten, it seems something beyond the capacity of the gods.
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What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.
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Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.
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Poetry is produced not by the mere caprice of pleasure, but by natural necessity. It is the primary activity of the human mind.
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Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day, or Warren's blackin' or Rowland's oil, or some o' them low fellows; never you let yourself down to talk poetry, my boy.
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Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.
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By means of Invocation, the being awakens, and awakening becomes fullness. By means of balancing, fullness becomes internal wholeness. By virtue of exteriorized attention, internal wholeness becomes Communion. By virtue of self-forgetfulness, Communion becomes Union.
