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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

Before Communicate Genuine Poetry
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Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.

Alter Any Beyond Different Emotions
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The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

Bad Conscious He Ought
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The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

Actual Business Emotions Express
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I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

Being Capacity Consumed Continuing
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Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

Easy Everywhere Looking Paper
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And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

Better Daily Daily Lives Finer
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Decided Deliver Find Inspiration
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The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.

Gods Only Poets Interpreters
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What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

Anguish Beautiful Beautiful Music Cries
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Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.

Been Before Everywhere Find
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The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them, science will discover these qualities... If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.

Beauty Discovery Majesty Nature
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If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

Blame Call Creator Daily
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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Emotion Found Poetry Thought
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Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
Gets Lost Poetry Translation
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Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Life Poetry Taking Throat
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A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

Affair Love Love Affair Never
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Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

Against Beginners Business Market
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Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

Baseball Both Intervals Like
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Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

About Grief Grievance Poetry
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Art Pleasure Poetry Truth
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If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.

Anybody He Little Made
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

Evolved Fear Fraud Friend
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
Beauty Brief Creation Define
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

Been Me Passion Poetry
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The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.
Admire Critic Fire Generous
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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
Beautiful Beautiful Woman Death Most
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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Verbal Music Art Become
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The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.
Blood Jet Poetry Stopping
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In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

Age Between Candidate Distinction
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Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got to burn away all the peripherals.

Away Burn Discipline Far
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Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm.

Best Harm Lot Poetry
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It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

Fact Writing Culture Art
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Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.

Complain Genuinely Poetry First
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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

Poet Love Person Before
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A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

Verbal Maker Objects Poet
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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
Body Book Cold Ever
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If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

Feel Head I Feel Know
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There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

Any Away Book Lands
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Arrogant, I think I have written lines which qualify me to be The Poetess of America (as Ted will be The Poet of England and her dominions).

America Arrogant England Her
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I saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold. Had a ghost passed over? No, it was the poetry.
Cold Did Ghost Had
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I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives.

Adjectives Advances Being Felt
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My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

Any Artist Express Feel
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There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

Poetry Prose Logic Mystery
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The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

Civilization Destroyed Generally Gross
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The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain - a magic wand in Nature's hand - every devout mountaineer knows its power; but the marvelous beauty value of what the Scotch call a breckan in a still dell, what poet has sung this?

Beauty Call Dell Devout
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There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.

Afghanistan Even Even Now Form
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Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

Among Death His Honor
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Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Dash Deal Dictionary Joy
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There is always the poet, the lunatic, the lover; there is always the religious man who is a queer mixture of the three.

Poet Lunatic Lover Religious
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