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Poets are supremely interested in what language can't do , in order to gesture outside, they use language in a way that flirts with its destruction.

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Phenomenology is one name for the path back from the object to the thing, the counterbalance to the objectification or 'progress'.Poetry is another.

The meditative approach acknowledges that one moment will inevitably lead on to the next. We accept immortality instead of fighting it off.

Admitting you are a nature poet, nowadays, may make you seem something of a fool!

The first indication of one's status as a nature poet is that one does not invoke language right off when talking about poetry.

There's a place
between desire and memory, some back porch
we can neither wish nor recall

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There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature (1836)

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.

T. S. Eliot Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919)

Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity...but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'.

George Chapman Ovid's Banquet of Sense (1595)

I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

Michael Faraday

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