All poetry is an affair of the body, that is, to be real, it must affect the body.
Poetry Quotes
Alexander Pope leads, followed by Florence Earle Coates, Muriel Rukeyser and Horace. Samuel Johnson’s definition in Lives of the English Poets (1779), poetry as the art of uniting pleasure with truth by calling imagination to the help of reason, is the best-sourced entry, and Thoreau’s couplet from A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849) is the saddest: his life was the poem he would have written, but he could not both live it and utter it.
Flagged: “All poetry is misrepresentation,” credited to Jeremy Bentham and disputed; a triplet on three poets from three distant ages, credited to Dryden and disputed; and “The crown of literature is poetry,” credited to Somerset Maugham and marked misattributed.
Poetry is a voicing, a calling forth, words waiting to be vocalized.
The most powerful poetry is birthed through cracks in history, through what is broken and unseen.
The creative process, like anything in life has poetry to it .
Sometimes poets have to be imperfect so their poetry can be perfect.
In essence, all poets contribute to writing the great endless poem.
“Poetry is a way of returning to the silence of the soul, but also a way of resisting oblivion.”