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Quotes about poetry and poets
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If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. (Kilcher Jewel)
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those we have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these things. (Kilcher Jewel)
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. (Kilcher Jewel)
We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of loss, and the more wearing, continuous pain of frustration and failure; and have had moods of unlooked-for release and peace. They have known and watched in themselves and others. (Kilcher Jewel)
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Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis. (Kilcher Jewel)
A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke. (Kilcher Jewel)
I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed. (Kilcher Jewel)
Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: --in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures. (Kilcher Jewel)
We must believe that emotion recollected in tranquillity is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion of meaning, tranquillity. It is a concentration, and a new thing resulting from the concentration of a very great number of experiences which to the practical and active person would not seem to be experiences at all; it is a concentration which does not happen consciously or of deliberation. These experiences are not recollected and they finally unite in an atmosphere which is tranquil only in that it is a passive attending upon the event. (Kilcher Jewel)
It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry --That is a life. (Kilcher Jewel)
I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling. (Kilcher Jewel)
Each venture is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate with shabby equipment always deteriorating in the general mess of imprecision of feeling. (Kilcher Jewel)
It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem. Every new relationship is a new word. (Kilcher Jewel)
Only poetry inspires poetry. (Kilcher Jewel)
Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting. (Kilcher Jewel)
Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock. (Kilcher Jewel)
Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song. (Kilcher Jewel)
Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words. (Kilcher Jewel)
Poetry is a mere drug, Sir. (Kilcher Jewel)
The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation. (Kilcher Jewel)
A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet. (Kilcher Jewel)
Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation. (Kilcher Jewel)
Of all great poems, love is the absolute and essential foundation. (Kilcher Jewel)
We all write poems. It is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. (Kilcher Jewel)
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. (Kilcher Jewel)
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