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"For example, the opposition between acute and grave phonemes has the capacity to suggest an image of bright and dark, of pointed and rounded, of thin and thick, of light and heavy, etc"

Roman Jakobson, Scientist

"My secrets must be poetic to be believable"

Mick Jagger, Musician

"Night hath a thousand eyes"

John Lyly, Writer

"The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature"

Edward Dahlberg, Novelist

"Earth took her shining station as a star, in Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"In a poem, the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity"

Marianne Moore, Poet

"Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony"

Horace Walpole, Author

"There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet, as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny, had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone"

Tom Wolfe, Journalist

"The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy"

Louis Kronenberger, Critic

"It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back"

Marianne Moore, Poet

"Poetry is all nouns and verbs"

Marianne Moore, Poet

"I see no reason for calling my work poetry, except that there is no other category in which to put it"

Marianne Moore, Poet

"Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies"

Federico Garcia Lorca, Poet

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them"

Federico Garcia Lorca, Poet

"The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic"

Harold Bloom, Critic

"Dream study impacts culture. We are put in touch with the inner poet who dreams. We hear our inner, subjective response to the outer world. That helps spiritualize our lives"

Henry Reed, Poet

"It was the rainbow gave thee birth, and left thee all her lovely hues"

W. H. Davies, Poet

"All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is"

Harold Bloom, Critic

"Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems"

Harold Bloom, Critic

"The dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all; And every soul bawled out, Well done! As loud as he could bawl"

William Cowper, Poet

"The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten"

Edith Sitwell, Poet

"Poetry is the deification of reality"

Edith Sitwell, Poet

"On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people"

Hu Shih, Philosopher

"Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few"

John Masefield, Poet

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

Umberto Eco, Novelist

"Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain"

John Masefield, Poet

"Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have"

John Masefield, Poet

"What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?... Or does it explode?"

Langston Hughes, Poet

"Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby!"

Langston Hughes, Poet

"Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying"

Langston Hughes, Poet

"No bad man can be a good poet"

Boris Pasternak, Novelist

"I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies"

Boris Pasternak, Novelist

"Every poet has a certain amount of stuff. That's what you draw from for imagery. The more stuff you know well, not simply intellectually but sensually, emotionally, intimately, the wider the pool from which you draw"

Marge Piercy, Writer

"The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's"

Jose Bergamin, Writer

"A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry"

Walter Pater, Critic

"Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet"

Rita Dove, Poet

"I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work. I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table"

Paul Auster, Author

"Even Echo speaks not on these radiant moors"

Barry Cornwall, Poet

"That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact"

Walter Pater, Critic

"Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture"

Rita Dove, Poet

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