Poetry Is Quotes - Page 35

• Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will.

  Terry Eagleton

  Art, Years, Ducks

  "A puritan at play" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2008.

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• Poetry is a totally different art than film.

  Stan Brakhage

  Art, Different, Film

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• Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.

  William C. Bryant

  Art, Imagination, Most Powerful

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• If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.

  Lascelles Abercrombie

  Fall, Epic, Species

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• Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak first from me to myself and then from me to you.

  Ellen Bass

  Writing, Want, Firsts

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• Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Numbers, Different, Angle

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• Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.

  Jerry B. Jenkins

  Book, Writing, Prose

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• Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.

  Richard Hell

  Years, Realizing, Good Poetry

  "Christopher Wool & Richard Hell". www.interviewmagazine.com. November 18, 2008.

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• And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.

  Norman MacCaig

  Thinking, Literature, Taught

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• Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense; it has particular ways of catching an environment.

  Story Musgrave

  Writing, Prose Poetry, Different

  "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement Interview in Baltimore, Maryland, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• Religion, like poetry, is not a mere idea, it is expression. The self-expression of God is in the endless variety of creation; and our attitude toward the Infinite Being must also in its expression have a variety of individuality ceaseless and unendi.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Attitude, Self, Expression

  Rabindranath Tagore (2004). “Tagore”, p.26, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going.

  James Laughlin

  Beautiful, Wall, Book

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• Poetry is partly sympathy, don't you think? If it's any good, it gets people to think about others' points of view.

  Edwin Morgan

  Thinking, Views, People

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• Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why you never see good poetry in advertising.

  David Whyte

  Looks, Elbows, Manipulation

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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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