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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.

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.

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.

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

Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did.

Poetry depends on being simultaneously opaque and transparent. It can't be only one or the other. The pebble and the pool.

Poetry fettered fetters the human race.

Poems are taught as though the poet has put a secret key in his words and it is the reader's job to find it. Poems are not mystery novels.

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 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 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 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.