WALLACE STEVENS (3)

Poetry is the subject of the poem. From this the poem issues and to this returns. Between the two, between issue and return, there is an absence in reality, things as they are.



Poetry is the supreme fiction.



The poet is the priest of the invisible.


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OCTAVIO PAZ (2)

Poetry is knowledge, redemption, power, surrender. The poetic activity which is capable of changing the world is by nature a revolutionary force; as an exercise of the mind it's a method to inner liberation. Poetry reveals this world; it creates another one.


To read a poem is to hear it with your eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.


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STEVEN WRIGHT

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.



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E.M. FORSTER

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.



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ROBERT ADAMSON

Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess.



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FLORENCE TONK

Writing poetry is what I like best. Because it is so honest. Quite a lot of work things are less honest. One has to give in. In poetry that's not necessary. You only have to comply with your own demands.



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SAMUEL JOHNSON

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.



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