Tag: poetry quotes
member name: Alison H.
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November 04, 2009 01:32 AM EST --
Emerson's essay was first published in 1844. Many think that Walt Whitman fulfilled Emerson's call for an American poet in the 1800's, and that Robert Frost fulfilled in the 1900's...
Theologians . . .
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April 16, 2009 05:58 PM EDT --
If poetry breaks its covenant with truth and justice, it has failed. --Seamus Heaney, The Sunday Tribune , 7 April 1996
It's important that it's clear that the poet is not inventing the value . . .
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January 08, 2009 05:52 PM EST --
Kimberly Ripley's current and excellent "Gather Essentials" article, in which she told of the life of Robert Frost, inspired me to hunt for some of his quotes about poetry. . . .
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June 12, 2008 01:23 AM EDT --
I hope you will enjoy these quotes and poems by one of my favorite poets.....
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I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
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July 09, 2009 07:13 PM EDT --
How do work and poetry fit together in your life? Is it a fruitful collaboration or discouraging? Here some poets express their thoughts on the subject...
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June 15, 2009 11:53 AM EDT --
Poetry is an antidote to the poison-level at which we often consent to live. --Penelope Shuttle
Poetry has to a large degree resumed its 19th-century role as a comfort and consolation, a retreat from . . .
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April 17, 2008 12:35 AM EDT --
I write my poems on scraps of paper because I want to carry them in my address book. I'm likely to read them at a moment's notice.
--Gwendolyn Brooks
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April 22, 2008 03:39 AM EDT --
I woke up this morning with the two last lines of this poem going through my mind. After some searching, I found the poem....
Invocation
There is a poem on the way,
There is a poem all . . .
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October 27, 2008 11:06 PM EDT --
Thanks are due to Kathryn Esplin and Nancy L. for reminding us that it is Sylvia Plath's birthday today (October 27th, as I write this). Kathryn described her life, and Nancy imbedded a youtube . . .
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November 15, 2008 01:43 PM EST --
Welcome to Poetry Quotes.......today's featured poet is Mary Karr. Karr's first book of poetry, Viper Rum , knocked me out with its direct verse and her essay on poetics. Though she considers . . .
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February 01, 2008 11:12 PM EST --
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. ~Leonard Cohen
There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, . . .
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May 04, 2008 05:54 PM EDT --
My business is words. Words are like labels,
or coins, or better, like swarming bees.
I confess I am only broken by the sources of things;
as if words were counted like dead bees in the attic, . . .
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March 27, 2009 07:35 PM EDT --
Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity.
Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express. . . .
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July 24, 2008 07:44 PM EDT --
Anna Swir (1908 to 1984) was one of Poland's most distinguished poets. She lived through the Nazi occupation of Poland, serving in the Resistance movement and as a military nurse in a makeshift . . .
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April 16, 2008 02:12 AM EDT --
"The dream of art is not to assert what is alrady known but to illuminate what has been hidden, and the path to the hidden world is not inscribed by will."
--Louise Gluck, from "The . . .
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October 17, 2008 02:10 AM EDT --
I hope you will enjoy these quotes from Maxine Kumin about her writing process (except for the last ones)...
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I tend to wait for a poem to come to me. I feel that it is at . . .
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