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THOMAS HARDY ~ ON POETRY

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Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

Thomas Hardy, 1840-1928

British novelist and poet, note written in 1899

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Thomas Hardy by William Strang, 1893

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HANNAH ARENDT ~ ON POETRY

Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which

OSCAR WILDE ~ ON POETS

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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
~Oscar Wilde

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HANNAH ARENDT ~ ON POETRY

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Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest to the thought that inspired it.  

Hannah Arendt

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VLADIMIR NABOKOV ~ ON POETRY

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Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

Vladimir Nabokov

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MALLARME ~ THE CREATION OF SILENCE

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“It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.”
~Stephen Mallarme

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SALVATORE QUASIMODO ~ WHAT IS POETRY…

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‘Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.’

Salvatore Quasimodo

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MAGRITTE ~ ON POETRY

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“Written poetry is invisible. Painted poetry has a visible appearance.”

Rene Magritte

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DYLAN THOMAS ~ ON POETRY

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“A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone’s knowledge of himself and the world around him.”

Dylan Thomas

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SOREN KIERKEGAARD ~ ON BEING A POET

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A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music… and then people crowd about the poet and say to him:  “Sing for us soon again;” that is as much as to say, “May new sufferings torment your soul.”

~Soren Kierkegaard

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GEORGE SAND ~ ON BEING A POET

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He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

~George Sand, 1851

Painting is George Sand by Eugene Delacroix

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