poetry

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Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.

Marilyn Hacker

poetry

An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive.

John Barton

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Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools.

John Barton

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In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change.

John Barton

poetry

If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.

John Barton

poetry

My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don't want our lives to end.

John Barton

poetry

I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.

Shelby Lynne

poetry

There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans.

Helen Thomas

poetry

It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.

John Millington Synge

poetry

I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn't play, it has a poignancy to it.

Jim Jarmusch

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