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Quote:- Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all.
Studies in Words
Author:- C.S. Lewis
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poetry ought to be a by-product of living, and you can't have a by-product unless you've got a product first.
Crossing to Safety
Author:- Wallace Stegner
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poetry purrs like a kitten on the tip of our tongue. Each word fluidly floating from our lips, like little crystalline snowflakes, before settling onto an emotional wonderland of forgotten feelings. It has the power to pull our deepest emotions to the surface of consciousness and to serenade our soul with the haunting melody of a self, lost... and finally found.
Author:- Jaeda DeWalt
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.
Author:- Maya Angelou
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.
Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil
Author:- C.D. Wright
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
Author:- John Keats
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world.
Annie, Between the States
Author:- Laura Malone Elliott
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.
The Notebook
Author:- Nicholas Sparks
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley.
Dime-Store Alchemy
Author:- Charles Simic
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poetry's work is the clarification and magnification of being.
Author:- Jane Hirshfield
Category:- poetry
Quote:- PoetryAnd it was at that age... Poetry arrived in search of me. I don’t know, I don’t know where it came from, from winter or a river. I don’t know how or when, no, they were not voices, they were notwords, nor silence, but from a street I was summoned, from the branches of night, abruptly from the others, among violent fires or returning alone, there I was without a face and it touched me. I did not know what to say, my mouthhad no way with names my eyes were blind, and something started in my soul, fever or forgotten wings, and I made my own way, deciphering that fire and I wrote the first faint line,faint, without substance, purenonsense, pure wisdom of someone who knows nothing, and suddenly I saw the heavens unfastened and open, planets, palpitating planations, shadow perforated, riddled with arrows, fire and flowers, the winding night, the universe. And I, infinitesimal being, drunk with the great starry void, likeness, image of mystery, I felt myself a pure part of the abyss, I wheeled with the stars, my heart broke free on the open sky.
Selected Poems
Author:- Pablo Neruda
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
Author:- Allen Ginsberg
Category:- poetry,hope
Quote:- Poets are often those who build their own universe,
Muse
Author:- Mithun Prakash
Category:- Love
Quote:- Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
Author:- Friedrich Nietzsche
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Alarms and Discursions
Author:- G.K. Chesterton
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poets to ComePOETS to come! orators, singers, musicians to come!Not to-day is to justify me, and answer what I am for;But you, a new brood, native, athletic, continental, greater than before known,Arouse! Arousefor you must justify meyou must answer.I myself but write one or two indicative words for the future,I but advance a moment, only to wheel and hurry back in the darkness.I am a man who, sauntering along, without fully stopping, turns a casual look upon you, and then averts his face,Leaving it to you to prove and define it,Expecting the main things from you.
Author:- Walt Whitman
Category:- poetry