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- Mab Jones' poetry is suffused with a cool wit and a wisdom beyond her years. She is a superb performance poet in the tradition of…
- Poetry is not a waiting room where one stays overnight...every word is war.
- Poetry is my understanding with the world, my intimacy with things, my participation in what is real, my engagement with voices and images. This is…
- Matt Mason must be declared the poet laureate of the Midwest! No other native son celebrates the overlooked America, its unsung citizens (from the anonymous…
- Charles Bernstein's pairs of jingles of 'public discourse' are 'simultaneous double narrative / the space between's the other narrative/as if they're opposite.' In the space…
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- 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 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
- Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production. — Joseph Brodsky
- Poetry is life distilled. — Gwendolyn Brooks
- Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. — Edmund Burke
- Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is. — James Branch Cabell
- Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. — Leonard Cohen
- I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a… — Leonard Cohen
- 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