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“The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.”
“Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.”
“Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.”
“Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.”
“He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.”
“Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.”
“Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.”
“The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.”
“None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.”
“The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.”
“There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.”
“Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.”
“How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.”
“Eloquence is the poetry of prose.”
“The nerds are my favourite sort of boys - any guy with a passion - whether it be physics or film or writing or poetry even, I think it's super sweet and it's very attractive for a female.”
“I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.”
“I think poetry is best read to oneself.”
“Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.”
“My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.”
“There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply.”
“American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.”
“But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.”
“But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.”