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Michael Schmidt on Poetry

born 1947 United Kingdom

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A poem works or fails to work; no amount of argufying can convert an experienced reader.

Getting poetry published', in, Writer's and Artist's Yearbook (2004)

Poetry is a collaborative art, and yet—as it is being created—the most solitary and 'individual' of activities.

In poetry much of the sense and most of the pleasure resides in the sounds the poem make.

Poetry is a process, a form of discovery, which if it serves a cause, transcends it.

Prose uses the medium of language whilst poetry serves language and explores it.

The reader does not need a technical vocabulary to read poetry, only a voice in the head or out loud which can deliver the sounds.

Poetry is a language with a shape

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Michael Schmidt (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.