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Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades.
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Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.
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Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen.
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Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
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Poetry is my cheap means of transportation. By the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started. I would like him to be slightly disoriented at the end, like I drove him outside of town at night and dropped him off in a cornfield.
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Poetry is not a luxury.
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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those we have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these things.
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Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.
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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 38 -
Poetry is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.
Conversations on the Craft of Poetry (1959)
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