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I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.
Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues (1996 edition), Univ of Michigan Pr -
I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligence - this may look like affectation but it is my real opinion. It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.
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I cannot accept the doctrine that in poetry there is a ''suspension of belief.'' A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.
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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
ISBN: 9780198184966 The Letters of A. E. Housman (2007 edition), Oxfor -
I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.
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I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.
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I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.
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I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.
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I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.
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I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.
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I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.
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I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
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I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time.
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I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings.
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If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
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If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
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If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
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If poetry comes not as naturally as leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.
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If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the passion-stains on the bedsheets.
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