Tomas Transtromer | poetry
Society’s dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place – the place of our separation, our distinction – that much of his poetry occupies.
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Anna Jameson | poetry
Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords – philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.
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Laura Riding | poetry
Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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Thomas Harrison | poetry
No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern.
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Hart Crane | poetry
And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I’ll be more contented working in an office than ever before.
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Laura Riding | poetry
To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.
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Laura Riding | poetry
The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind… The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.
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