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Post by Elle Rush on Feb 22, 2006 13:59:23 GMT -5
The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
---Jean Cocteau
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Post by Elle Rush on Feb 22, 2006 13:59:50 GMT -5
Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
---Rita Dove
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Post by Elle Rush on Feb 22, 2006 14:00:13 GMT -5
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
--T. S. Eliot
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Post by Elle Rush on Feb 22, 2006 14:04:40 GMT -5
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
Robert Frost
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Post by Elle Rush on Feb 22, 2006 14:05:15 GMT -5
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
Thomas Hardy
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Post by Elle Rush on Feb 22, 2006 14:05:38 GMT -5
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Samuel Johnson
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Post by Elle Rush on Feb 22, 2006 14:06:07 GMT -5
Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
John Keats
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Post by Elle Rush on Feb 22, 2006 14:06:30 GMT -5
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Post by Elle Rush on Feb 22, 2006 14:06:51 GMT -5
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
Plato
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Post by Elle Rush on Feb 22, 2006 14:07:20 GMT -5
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
Carl Sandburg
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Post by Elle Rush on Feb 22, 2006 14:07:43 GMT -5
Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Post by Elle Rush on Feb 22, 2006 14:08:14 GMT -5
You can tear a poem apart to see what makes it tick... You're back with the mystery of having been moved by words. The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps... so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in.
Dylan Thomas
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Post by Elle Rush on Feb 22, 2006 14:09:16 GMT -5
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
Salvatore Quasimodo
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Post by Elle Rush on Feb 22, 2006 14:09:46 GMT -5
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
Marianne Moore
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daemona
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Post by daemona on Mar 16, 2006 10:38:53 GMT -5
"All poets are dreamers, all the musicians are dreamers, all the mystics are dreamers. In fact, creativity is a by-product of dreaming." ~ Osho
"The soul happens only when the artist disappears into his art - he is no longer seperate. Some unknown force has done it through him, he knows that he has been possessed." ~ Osho
"Creativity means bringing the new into existence, making a way for the unknown to penetrate the known, making a way for the sky to come to the earth." ~ Osho
"Very few people are accepted as creative - a few painters, a few poets, one in a million. This is foolish! Every human is born a creator. Watch childrean and you will see: all children are creative." ~ Osho
"A creator has to be able to look foolish. A creator has to risk so-called respectability. That´s why you always see poets, painters, dancers, musicians, are not very respectable people." ~ Osho
"The creative person has to dissolve all shoulds and should nots. He needs freedom and space, vast space,he needs the whole sky and all the stars, only then can his innermost spontaneity start growing." ~ Osho
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