Poetry Is Quotes - Page 17

• The element of craftsmanship in poetry is obscured by the fact that all men are taught to speak and most to read and write, while very few men are taught to draw or paint or write music.

  W. H. Auden

  Writing, Men, Taught

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• If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.

  Helen Vendler

  Pages, Way, Precision

  "Helen Vendler: Poetry Critic and Fan of Art History". Interview with Amy Sutherland, www.bostonglobe.com. November 17, 2012.

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• Good religious poetry... is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.

  A. E. Housman

  Religious, Appreciated

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• Never let the mud puddle get lost in the poetry
   because, in many ways, the mud puddle is the poetry.

  Valerie Worth

  Mud, Puddles, Way

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• One of the reasons poetry is such an amazing genre to work with is because it constantly reinvents itself and re-negotiates its terms with the reader.

  Cate Marvin

  Reason, Genre, Term

  Source: www.redividerjournal.org

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• Poetry is what happens when an anxiety meets a technique.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Anxiety, Technique, Happens

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• The function of poetry is to point out that the sign is not identical to the referent.

  Roman Jakobson

  Art, Poetry, Function

  Roman Jakobson (1967). “To honor Roman Jakobson: Essays on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, 11 October 1966”

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• The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Writing, Poetry

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.304, Univ of California Press

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• Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Art, Poetry, Way

  Joseph Brodsky (2011). “On Grief And Reason: Essays”, p.106, Penguin UK

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• The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.

  Ezra Pound

  Art, Poetry, Pigment

  Ezra Pound, Harriet Zinnes (1980). “Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts”, p.152, New Directions Publishing

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• Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Art, Echoes, Poetry

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• Confessional poetry is, to my mind, more slippery than poems that are sloppily autobiographical; I find the confessional mode much more akin to dramatic monologue.

  Cate Marvin

  Mind, Dramatic, Monologues

  Source: www.redividerjournal.org

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• Eloquence is heard; poetry is overheard ... All poetry is of the nature of the soliloquy.

  John Stuart Mill

  Art, Poetry, Heard

  John Stuart Mill (1969). “Autobiography, and Other Writings”

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• Poetry is a satifying of the desire for resemblance.

  Wallace Stevens

  Art, Poetry, Desire

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• On the one hand poetry is useless. It can't change the world materially. On the other hand it is a basic part of human existence. It came into the world when humans did. It's what makes human beings human.

  Bei Dao

  Hands, Useless, World

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.

  John Denham

  Pouring, Spirit, Language

  Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham, Wentworth Dillon Earl of Roscommon, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Edmund Waller”, p.166

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• It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?

  Robin Wright

  Beauty, And Love, Hard

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• If the art of poetry is?the art of making sense of the chaos of human experience, it's not a bad thing to see a lot of chaos.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Art, Chaos, Human Experience

  On his work in government. Quoted in Scott Donaldson Archibald MacLeish (1992).

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• Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are, to recreate the familiar, eternalizing the poet's own perception in unique and original verbal form.

  Philip Larkin

  Unique, Sanity, Affair

  "Required Writing-Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982". Book by Philip Larkin, Farrar Strauss, 1984.

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• All poetry is experimental poetry.

  Wallace Stevens

  Poetry

  1957 Opus Posthumous, Aphorisms,'Adagia'.

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• In its use of words poetry is just the reverse of science. Very definite thoughts do occur, but not because the words are so chosen as logically to bar out all possibilities save one.

  David Daiches

  Poetry, Bars, Use

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• Poetry is a verdict rather than an intention.

  Leonard Cohen

  Art, Poetry, Intention

  "A Visit With Leonard Cohen: Poetry, Britney Spears and More With a Master" by Mark Binelli, www.rollingstone.com. November 16, 2016.

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• Poetry is that magic which consists in awakening sensations with the help of a combination of sounds ... that sorcery by which ideas are necessarily communicated to us, in a definite way, by words which nevertheless do not express them.

  John Banville

  Art, Ideas, Poetry

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• The poem, in a sense, is no more or less than a little machine for remembering itself ... Poetry is therefore primarily a commemorative act.

  Don Paterson

  Art, Poetry, Machines

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• Poetry is not the record of an event: it is an event.

  Robert Lowell

  Art, Poetry, Events

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