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Vanna Bonta on Poetry

1958–2014 Italy

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Poetry is a transfusion of the ephemeral blood that sustains the universal heartbeat within human society.

The Cosmos as a Poem (2010)

A phoneme, an utterance, could be said to be the beginning of poetry's evolutionary chain.

The Cosmos as a Poem (2010)

Poetry achieves its pinnacle when it is the perfection and mastery of expression (creation, perception) as Art (arrangement).

The Cosmos as a Poem (2010)

For literary purposes, the art of writing poetry can be simply defined as: A creative act using language as a medium refined to an art.

The Cosmos as a Poem (2010)

Poetry emulates the Cosmos perhaps because the Cosmos itself is the grandest conceivable example of rhythm, rhyme, harmony and concinnity.

The Cosmos as a Poem (2010)

Poetry is a subset of a Cosmos, which in itself, is a poem.

The Cosmos as a Poem (2010)

The forms [of poetry] are subsets of the principles that govern the cosmos itself which, by its very definition is: a complete, orderly, harmonious system.

The Cosmos as a Poem (2010)

Dreams are the food of human progress. Poetry, like all physics, ultimately quantifies the unquantifiable that is beyond all form.

The Cosmos as a Poem (2010)

These elements — rhythm, rhyme, harmony and concinnity — can inevitably be identified within whatever is proclaimed 'poetry.'

The Cosmos as a Poem (2010)

Attribution

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