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Certain supplementary restrictions imposed on the text compel us to perceive it as poetry. As soon as one assigns a given text to the category of poetry, the number of meaningful elements in it acquires the capacity to grow and the system of their combinations also becomes more complex.

Chestnut brown canary, ruby throated sparrow, sing a song, don't be long, thrill me to the marrow.

Charles Dickens was an avid seeker of names - he read directories and looked for odd names on gravestones.

clarity need not be equivalent to / readability. How readable is the world?

Creatures crawl in search of blood to terrorize your neighborhood. And whosoever shall be found without the soul for getting down, must stand and face the hounds of hell, and rot inside a corpse's shell.

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.

Every genuine poet is necessarily a Columbus. America existed for centuries before Columbus but it was only Columbus who was able to track it down.

Eloquence is heard; poetry is overheard ... All poetry is of the nature of the soliloquy.

Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.

Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity, but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite.

Every Night and every Morn Some to Misery are born. Every Morn and every Night Some are born to Sweet Delight, Some are born to Endless Night.

For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.

Every single soul is a poem.

Everything but "I LOVE YOU" is small talk.

For a poet, style is the only morality.

For Mallarmé naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consists in the joy of guessing bit by bit - "le suggérer, voilà le rêve!").

For this present, hard Is the fortune of the bard, Born out of time; All his accomplishment, From Nature's utmost treasure spent, Booteth not him.

Everyone of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal, pouring off every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.

Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard.

For the drover's life has pleasures that the townsfolk never know.

For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.

Fourier is a mathematical poem.

For, whom the Muses smile upon, And touch with soft persuasion, His words like a storm-wind can bring Terror and beauty on their wing; In his every syllable Lurketh nature veritable.

For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above allthat exceptions prove the rule--that everything that exists in nature exists in art.

For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.

for what is the gift of the poet and the artist except to see the sights which others cannot see and to hear the sounds that others cannot hear?

Functions of technical information, historic record, analytic argument, which are integral and obvious to Dante's use of verse are now almost completely a part of the 'prosaic'.

From it's inception Beat poetry was hailed as "something NEW" and "like all good spontaneous jazz, newness is acceptable and expected - by hip people who listen." But the newness of jazz has in it the echoes of J. S. Bach.

Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal mind than as if arbitrarily composed by the poet.

German poetry is going in a very different direction from French poetry.... Its language has become more sober, more factual. It distrusts "beauty." It tries to be truthful.

Gently touching with the charm of poetry.

Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath.

Gotta get a tight grip, don't slip, loose lips, sank ships, it's a trip, I love the way she licks her lips.

Grandfather / advised me: / Learn a trade / I learned / to sit at desk / and condense / No layoff / from this / condensery.

He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.

Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

How wide is all this long pretense! There is in love a sweetness ready penned, Copy out only that, and save expense.

I blessed the power which has filled my life with poetry.

I allow no hot-beds in the gardens of Parnassus.

I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject.

I believe in solitude broken like bread by poetry.

I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.

I am not lazy. I am on the amphetamine of the soul. I am, each day, typing out the God my typewriter believes in.

I believe that if I should die, and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the earth I would hear your footsteps.