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On Poetry
There is no frigate like a bookTo take us lands away,
Nor any coursers like a page
Of prancing poetry.
- Emily Dickinson
Poets On Poetry
Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. ~Carl Sandburg, Poetry Considered
The distinction between historian and poet is not in the one writing prose and the other verse... the one describes the thing that has been, and the other a kind of thing that might be. Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars. ~Aristotle, On Poetics.
The only problem
with Haiku is that you just
get started and then
~Roger McGough
The poem... is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see - it is, rather, a light by which we may see - and what we see is life. ~Robert Penn Warren, Saturday Review, 22 March 1958
Poetry is a much subtler, more highly nuanced and trickier affair. It does draw on our experience, but through various filtered and altered shapes, to create an object. ~Mark Strand
It would have been nice had we provided a nice warm stable and we were feeding them regularly - the care and feeding of poets. ~Lawrence Ferlinghetti
