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  • The poem . . . is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.

    1958 In the Saturday Review, 22 Mar.
  • Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

    The New York Times, March 26, 1961.
  • What is poetry which does not save nations or people?

    Sea   People   Doe  
    Czeslaw Milosz (2017). “Selected and Last Poems 1931-2004”, p.66, Penguin UK
  • There is all the poetry in the world in a name. It is a poem which the mass of men hear and read. What is poetry in the common sense, but a hearing of such jingling names? I want nothing better than a good word. The name of a thing may easily be more than the thing itself to me.

  • The bacillus of efficiency has also attacked football, and some dare to ask what's the point in playing well. I feel tempted to tell about the time they dared to ask Borges what is poetry for, to which he answered: 'What is a sunrise for? What are caresses for? What is the smell of coffee for?'

    Football   Coffee   Smell  
  • Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us.

    Beautiful   Reading   May  
    Antonin Artaud (1958). “The Theater and Its Double”, p.78, Grove Press
  • Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

    Men   Uprising   Poetry  
    1919 Jurgen.
  • But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

    "Fictional character: John Keating". "Dead Poets Society", www.imdb.com. 1989.
  • Sir, what is poetry? Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is; but it is not easy to tell what it is.

    Light   Poetry   Easy  
    In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 3, p. 38 (12 April 1776)
  • What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart?

    Education   Heart   Math  
  • What is poetry? Do not enquire. The secret dies by prying. How does the heart beat? I fainted when I saw it on the screen, opening and closing like a flower ... Poetry is like this, it is life moving, terrible, vivid. Look the other way when you write, or you might faint.

    Flower   Moving   Writing  
  • Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

    Time   Lying   Party  
    Quoted in Barry Miles Ginsberg (1989), ch.5.
  • Law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

    "Dead Poets Society". www.imdb.com. 1989.
  • What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.

    'Modern Painters' (1888) vol. 3
  • If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'

    A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr
  • Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

    Art   Mean   Expression  
    The Sacred Wood "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1920)
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