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Poetry Is Quotes by C.D. Wright
- Poetry is a necessity of life,
- Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.
- Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.
More Poetry Is Quotes
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production. — Joseph Brodsky
- Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an… — Lascelles Abercrombie
- The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is… — A. R. Ammons
- Poetry is ordinary language raised to the "N th" power. — Paul Engle
- Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. — Matthew Arnold
- A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. — Wystan Hugh Auden