Poetry Is Quotes - Page 30

• I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind.

  Julian Jaynes

  Mind, Firsts, Poet

  Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.371, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Poetry begins as the divine speech of the bicameral mind. Then, as the bicameral mind breaks down, there remain prophets.

  Julian Jaynes

  Mind, Speech, Breaking Down

  Julian Jaynes (1990). “The origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Poetry is God's work.

  Katy Lederer

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• Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game.

  Roberto Bolano

  Games, Poetry, One Thing

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• Poetry is a sequence of dots and dashes, spelling depths, crypts, cross-lights, and moon wisps.

  Carl Sandburg

  Moon, Light, Depth

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

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• Perhaps the author cited is one of those, who, shunning the practice of the world, have taught the world to shun return! whose poetry is too finely spun, whose philosophy is too and mystified for popular demand: perhaps we have experienced feeling which Mr. Wordsworth alludes to, in a poem worthy of simplicity and loneliness of the sentiment "Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure; Sighed to think I read a book Only read perhaps by me!

  Samuel Laman Blanchard

  Lonely, Philosophy, Loneliness

  "Sketches from Life" by Laman Blanchard. "Quotations", 1846.

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• I have always disliked the idea of an arts ghetto in which poetry is kept on a life-support system.

  Tony Harrison

  Art, Ghetto, Support Systems

  1989 In the Observer, 23 Jul.

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• American poetry is always about defining oneself individually,claiming one's right to be different and often to break taboos.

  Diane Wakoski

  Different, Literature, Defining

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• Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms and the latter longer ones, gut this is only in part true.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Ideas, Differences, Literature

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.92, tredition

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• The music that really moves me is music that's written by people where there isn't a lot of money and they're really singing with just their voice and a guitar about their feelings and about their life. Their poetry is relatively simple, in the sense that it's about their soul in jeopardy.

  Anton Yelchin

  Moving, Simple, Guitar

  Source: collider.com

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• Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.

  Donald Hall

  Important, Done, Found

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• Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

  Wilfred Owen

  War, Pity, Concerned

  Poems (1963 ed.) preface

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• By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar.

  David Whyte

  Mainstream Society, Interesting, Quality

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• Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn't know you knew. It is a learned skill to force yourself to articulate your life, your present world or your possibilities for the future.

  David Whyte

  Art, Skills, World

  "The Questions that Have No Right to Go Away" by David Whyte, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2012.

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• You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally - your ears will know.

  Vikram Seth

  Matter, Way, Ears

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• Poetry became my doctor, my lover.

  J. Ivy

  Doctors, Lovers, My Lover

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• Poetry is a kind of distilled insinuation. It's a way of expanding and talking around an idea or a question. Sometimes, more actually gets said through such a technique than a full frontal assault.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Ideas, Talking, Way

  Yusef Komunyakaa, Radiclani Clytus (2000). “Blue notes: essays, interviews, and commentaries”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous.

  Archie Shepp

  Strong, Rap, Elements

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• It is worthwhile adding that the power of the poem to teach not only sensibilities and the subtle movements of the spirit but knowledge, real lasting felt knowledge, is going mostly unnoticed among our scholars. The body of knowledge locked into and releasable from poetry can replace practically any university in the Republic. First things first, then: the primal importance of a poem is what it can add to the individual mind.Poetry is the voice of a poet at its birth, and the voice of a people in its ultimate fulfillment as a successful and useful work of art.

  Guy Davenport

  Art, Real, Successful

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• Poetry is the special medium of spiritual crazy wisdom, the form of expression that comes closest to creating a bridge between words and what is wordless.

  Wes Nisker

  Spiritual, Crazy, Expression

  Scoop Nisker, Wes Nisker (1990). “Crazy Wisdom”

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• Poetry is the plough that turns up time in such a way that the abyssal strata of time, its black earth, appear on the surface.

  Osip Mandelstam

  Black, Earth, Way

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• American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.

  David Biespiel

  Long, Mess, American Poetry

  "David Biespiel's poetry wire: the cynicism of Mark Edmundson, or poetry is still not dead". therumpus.net. June 21, 2013.

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• Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings.

  David Biespiel

  Art, Relation, Humans

  ""David Biespiel's poetry wire: a scream of consciousness". therumpus.net. February 17, 2015.

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• Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Vision, Glimpse, World

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• I like poetry when I don't quite understand why I like it. Poetry isn't just a question of wrapping something up and giving it to someone else to unwrap. It just doesn't work like that.

  Mark Haddon

  Giving, Wrapping

  "Finding the vital spark". Interview With Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2005.

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