Poetry Is Quotes - Page 26

• Poetry is the report of a nuance between two moments, when people say, 'Listen!' and 'Did you see it?' 'Did you hear it? What was it?'

  Carl Sandburg

  Two, People, Nuance

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.317, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Poetry is a puppet-show, where riders of skyrockets and divers of sea fathoms gossip about the sixth sense and the fourth dimension.

  Carl Sandburg

  Sea, Gossip, Puppets

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.317, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Poetry is a plan for a slit in the face of a bronze fountain goat and the path of fresh drinking water.

  Carl Sandburg

  Drinking, Water, Goats

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.317, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Poetry is a fossil rock-print of a fin and a wing, with an illegible oath between.

  Carl Sandburg

  Rocks, Wings, Fossils

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Poetry is an exhibit of one pendulum connecting with other and unseen pendulums inside and outside the one seen.

  Carl Sandburg

  Unseen, Pendulums, Exhibits

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Poetry is a sky dark with a wild-duck migration.

  Carl Sandburg

  Dark, Sky, Ducks

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Poetry is any page from a sketchbook of outlines of a doorknob with thumb-prints of dust, blood, dreams.

  Carl Sandburg

  Dream, Dust, Blood

  Carl Sandburg (1928). “Smoke and steel: Slabs of the sunburnt West. Good morning, America”, Harcourt, Brace and World

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• Poetry is the cipher key to the five mystic wishes packed in a hollow silver bullet fed to a flying fish.

  Carl Sandburg

  Keys, Flying, Wish

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Poetry is a theorem of a yellow-silk handkerchief knotted with riddles, sealed in a balloon tied to the tail of a kite flying in a white wind against a blue sky in spring.

  Carl Sandburg

  Spring, Blue, Wind

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Poetry is a mock of a cry at finding a million dollars and a mock of a laugh at losing it.

  Carl Sandburg

  Laughing, Dollars, Losing

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Poetry is a section of river-fog and moving boat-lights, delivered between bridges and whistles, so one says, 'Oh!' and another, 'How?'

  Carl Sandburg

  Moving, Light, Fog

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.319, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Poetry is an enumeration of birds, bees, babies, butterflies, bugs, bambinos, babayagas, and bipeds, beating their way up bewildering bastions.

  Carl Sandburg

  Baby, Butterfly, Bird

  Carl Sandburg (1928). “Smoke and steel: Slabs of the sunburnt West. Good morning, America”, Harcourt, Brace and World

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• Poetry is the establishment of a metaphorical link between white butterfly-wings and the scraps of torn-up love-letters.

  Carl Sandburg

  Butterfly, Wings, White

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.319, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.

  Carl Sandburg

  Sunset, Fire, Purple

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.319, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Poetry is the capture of a picture, a song, or a flair, in a deliberate prism of words.

  Carl Sandburg

  Song, Flair, Capture

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “Harvest Poems: 1910-1960”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Fire, Poetry, Fire Inside

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2010). “A Life in Letters”, p.750, Simon and Schuster

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• Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Revealing, Mankind

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.211, Ravenio Books

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• Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Fall, Poetry, Goes On

  In M. St. J. Packe 'The Life of John Stuart Mill' (1954) bk. 1, ch. 2

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• If Rumi is the most-read poet in America today, Coleman Barks is in good part responsible. His ear for the truly divine madness in Rumi’s poetry is really remarkable.

  Huston Smith

  America, Ears, Today

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• Poetry is a break for freedom.

  David Whyte

  Break

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• Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Expression, Poetry, Impression

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• Poetry is the only art people haven't learned to consume like soup.

  W. H. Auden

  Art, People, Poetry

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• Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Heart, Poetry, Oracles

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• As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes.

  John Dryden

  Music, Harmony, Notes

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• 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, Likes, Odd

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