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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.

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.

Poems are my link with the times, with the new life of my people.

Poems come from incomplete knowledge.

Poetry colors beings, objects, landscapes and sensations with a kind of new and particular light, which is in fact that of the poet's emotions.

Poetic language features an iconic rather than a predominantly conventional relationship of form and content in which all language (and cultural) elements, variant as well as invariant, may be involved in the expression of the content.", "Analysis of the Poetic Text.

Poetry absolves spirituality from the dividedness of religions and provides us with a sanctuary that excludes no one.

Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by.

Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as that of science; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more and more fugitive causes. In the truly great poets... there is a reason assignable, not only for every word, but for the position of every word.

Poetic effect is the peculiar effect of an utterance which achieves most of its relevance through a wide array of weak implicatures.

Poetry examines an emotional truth. It's an experience filtered through the personality of the poet. We look to poetry for visions, not scientific truths. The poet's job is to combine new elements. Explore their melting, seeping into one another.

Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin of man.

Poetry is a means of redemption.

Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

Poetry is a satifying of the desire for resemblance.

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.

Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.

Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling. A fine poem will seize your imagination intellectually - that is, when you reach it, you will reach it intellectually too - but the way is through emotion, through what we call feeling.

Poetry is a dumb Buddha who thinks a donkey is as important as a diamond.

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

Poetry is an act of peace.

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

Poetry is language in orbit.

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

Poetry is not the record of an event: it is an event.

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.

Poetry is the overflowing of the Soul.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Poetry is unfallen speech. Paradise knew no other, for no other would suffice to answer the need of those ecstatic days of innocence.

Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.

Poetry must find ways of breaking distance.... all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds.

Poetry has never been a favorite American pastime.

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

poetry ... is another way to be hurled straight into the heart of God.

Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.

Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.

Poetry is road maintenance for a fragmented world which seeks to be kept together. It's been an integral activity for a long time.

Poetry is that magic which consists in awakening sensations with the help of a combination of sounds ... that sorcery by which ideas are necessarily communicated to us, in a definite way, by words which nevertheless do not express them.

Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

Poetry reproduces an indefinable mood that is more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting, as she is here in Virgil.

Poetry, unlike music, is a meta-art, and relies upon non-physical structures for the production of its effects. In its case, the medium is syntax, grammar and logical continuity, which together form the carrier-wave of plain sense within which its deeper meanings are broadcast.

Poetry must be as well written as prose.

Poetry should only occupy the idle.

Poetry speaks most effectively and inclusively (whether in free or formal verse) when it recognizes its connection - without apology - to its musical and ritualistic origins.

Poetry's role is to provide spontaneous individual candor as distinct from manipulation and brainwash.

Poetry saves what is human in this world going gaudy & insane. In exploring small truths, something larger might turn up, adding dimension, insight, vision, recognition to our lives. We just might be more complete, more aware after a poem.