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Letter "P" » Poetry
«It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.»
«I have been eating poetry.»
Author: Mark Strand
| About:
Poetry
«I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.»
«I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.»
«I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world.»
«I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Poetry
| Keywords:
attracted, at length, cherished, poetic, predecessor
«I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.»
«It is that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment which constitutes poetic faith.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
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Poetry
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constitutes, disbelief, for the moment, in suspension, poetic, suspension, suspension of disbelief
«I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.»
«It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -- that is a life.»
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