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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 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 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.
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 38 -
Poetry is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.
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Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
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Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment.
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
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Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.
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Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 37 -
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
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Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.
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Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew.
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Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
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Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity - it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
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Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
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