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poetry events moments
Often it is a moment rather than an event that makes a poem. Tracy K. Smith
poetry instinct appeals
Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts. Robinson Jeffers
poetry reason rhyme
Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason. Thomas More
poetry problem haiku
The only problem with Haiku is that you just get started and then Roger McGough
poetry musical
Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought. Thomas Carlyle
poetry poetic breathe
Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. Thomas Gray
poetry world might
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. Thomas Hardy
poetry mind certain
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. Thomas B. Macaulay
poetry age genius
We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.
poetry mind world
poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of the world we carry within us. Vernon Lee
poetry way lost
I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation. Robert Frost
poetry renewal settings
Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.
poet persons
I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.
poetry emotion found
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
poet intimate combination
It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate. Rita Dove
poetry likes odd
At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, as in the Bible, for instance, or Homer or Shakspeare. I see he covertly or plainly likes best superb verbal polish, or something old or odd Walt Whitman
poetry facts given
Poetry is fact given over to imagery. Rod McKuen
poet easier impression
The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression, and this makes life easier and simpler. Robert Schumann
poetry odes causes
Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as that of science; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more and more fugitive causes. In the truly great poets... there is a reason assignable, not only for every word, but for the position of every word. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
poetry may fool
Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.
poetry poet impossibility
An undevout poet is an impossibility.
poet profession conditions
To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession. Robert Graves
poetry grows
How do poems grow? They grow out of your life. Robert Penn Warren
poetry elegance revelations
Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation. Robert Fitzgerald
poetry language states
Poetry is the language of a state of crisis. Stephane Mallarme
poet abandon
Poets don't finish poems, they abandon them.
poetry cosmos poetry-is
Poetry is a subset of a Cosmos, which in itself, is a poem. Vanna Bonta
poetry sanctuary spirituality
Poetry absolves spirituality from the dividedness of religions and provides us with a sanctuary that excludes no one.
poetry
The true poem rests between the words.
poet best-performance performances
Chris Chandler is the best performance poet I have ever seen. Utah Phillips
poet poetry-by-famous-poets has-beens
Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me. Sigmund Freud
poetry fit prime
Just now I've taen the fit o' rhyme / My barmie noddle's working prime. Robert Burns
poetry difficult poetry-is
All poetry is difficult to read - The sense of it anyhow. Robert Browning