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we have let rhetoric do the job of poetry.

we have let rhetoric do the job of poetry.

Cherrie Moraga

Jobs, Poetry, Rhetoric

Cherríe Moraga (1983). “Loving in the war years: lo que nunca pasó por sus labios”, South End Pr

Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Men, Poetry, Soul

You must be a poet, a lady of evil luck desiring to be what you are not, longing to be what you can only visit.

Anne Sexton

Evil, Poetry, Luck

Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Poetry, Bird, New Frontiers

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

William Butler Yeats

Poetry, Argument, Quarrels

"Anima Hominis" (1924)

Almost any poem has to be read twice, first for strangeness, second for clarity.

Peter J. Daniels

Poetry, Literature, Firsts

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.

Niels Bohr

Inspirational, Creating, Poetry

Niels Bohr's response to questions on the nature of language during his first meeting with Werner Heisenberg (Summer 1920), as quoted in "Discussions about Language", 1933, in Robert J. Pranger "Defense Implications of International Indeterminacy" (p. 11), 1972, and in Steve Giles "Theorizing Modernism: Essays in Critical Theory" (p. 28), 1993.

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

Mark Strand

Pain, Poetry, Pleasure

"In The Presence Of America: A Conversation With Mark Strand". Interview with Katharine Coles, weberstudies.weber.edu. 1992.

Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.

Madame de Stael

Poetry, Apotheosis, Poetry Is

Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Essence, Needs, Poetry Is

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Joseph Joubert

Poetry, Poetic, Great Poetry

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

Jean Cocteau

Liars, Lying, Poetry

Poetry is a perfectly reasonable means of overcoming chaos.

I. A. Richards

Mean, Poetry, Overcoming

Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen.

Fleur Adcock

Communication, Poetry, Way

In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.

Ezra Pound

Poetry, Elements, Likes

If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Love, Sake, Wedding Poetry

1850 Poems,'Sonnets from the Portuguese', sonnet 14.

Poetry is the fiery index to the genius of the age.

Babette Deutsch

Age, Genius, Poetry Is

One had a lovely face, And two or three had charm, But charm and face were in vain. Because the mountain grass Cannot keep the form Where the mountain hare has lain.

William Butler Yeats

Two, Poetry, Lovely

William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.125, Wordsworth Editions