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Our earliest poets were shamans. Today, as in the earliest times, true shamans are poets of consciousness who know the power of song and story to teach and to heal.

Our poetry now is the realization that we possess nothing. Anything therefore is a delight (since we do not posses it) and thus need not fear its loss.

Our taste is too delicate and particular. It says nay to the poet's work, but never yea to his hope.

Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know.

Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or, it may be, religion.

Painting gives the object itself; poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself; poetry suggests what exists out of it, in any manner connected with it.

Part of the strength of Pollock and Rothko's art, in fact, is this doubt as to whether art may be there at all.

... passion for survival is the great theme of women's poetry.

Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.

Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away.

Poetry a riprap on the slick rock of metaphysics

Poems allow us not only to bear the tally and toll of our transience, but to perceive, within their continually surprising abundance, a path through the grief of that insult into joy.

Poetry and code - and mathematics - make us read differently from other forms of writing. Written poetry makes the silent reader read three kinds of pattern at once; code moves the reader from a static to an active, interactive and looped domain; while algebraic topology allows us to read qualitative forms and their transformations.

Poetry and philosophy are, according to how you take them, different spheres, different forms, or factors of religion. Try to really combine both, and you will have nothing but religion.

Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation.

Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time.

Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.

Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

Poetry is the connecting link between body and mind.

Poetry exists partly to undermine the certainties of an accepted intellectual system, by opening a fissure of awareness at which the reality of the unconquered world may enter.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

Poetry is a dangerous gift.

Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past us in a polite blur.

Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen.

Poetry is a subset of a Cosmos, which in itself, is a poem.

Poetry is a verdict rather than an intention.

Poetry is easier to learn than prose. Once you have learned it you can use it as a light and a laser. It shows up your true situation and it helps you cut through it.

Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you

Poetry is good for unleashing images.

Poetry is itself a thing of God; He made his prophets poets; and the more We feel of poesie do we become Like God in love and power,-under-makers.

Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.

Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.

poetry is the sung voice of accurate perception.

Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.

Poetry is a peerless proficiency of the imagination.

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

Poetry is fact given over to imagery.

Poetry is frosted fire.

Poetry isn't an activity, it's a way life is lived.

Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth. Also, it began through the process of seeing, and feeling, and hearing, and smelling, and touching, and then remembering--I mean remembering in words--what these perceptual experiences were like, while trying to describe the endless invisible fears and desires of our inner lives.

Poetry is our heart, our spirit, our soul. Call it whatever; without it, everything else is nothing but hardware.

Poetry is the breath of beauty.

Poetry is the eloquence of verse.

Poetry is the sister of Sorrow. Every man that suffers and weeps is a poet; every tear is a verse, and every heart a poem.

Poetry is the tunnel at the end of the light.

Poetry is what makes my toenails twinkle.

Poetry is when you talk to yourself.

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement... says heaven and earth in one word... speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time.