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[Lake]

"Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity."
--William Wordsworth


"A good poet is someone who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightening five or six times; a dozen or two dozen times and he is great."
--Randall Jarrell


"Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds."
--Percy Bysshe Shelley



"Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down."
--Robert Frost


"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things."
--T.S.Eliot


"Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people."
--Adrian Mitchell


"I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is prose; words in their best order; - poetry; the best words in the best order."
--S.T.Coleridge


"Well, write poetry, for God's sake, it's the only thing that matters."
--e. e. cummings


"In my view a good poem is one in which the form of the verse and the joining of its parts seems light as a shallow river flowing over its sandy bed."
--Basho


"Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something. Don't use such an expression as 'dim land of peace.' It dulls the image. It mixes an abstraction with the concrete. It comes from the writer's not realising that the natural object is always the adequate symbol. Go in fear of abstractions.
--Ezra Pound


"Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air".
--Carl Sandburg


"Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things, and hence its importance."
--Matthew Arnold


"Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
--S.T.Coleridge


"To break the pentameter, that was the first heave."
--Ezra Pound


"Poetry is what in a poem makes you laugh, cry, prickle, be silent, makes your toe nails twinkle, makes you want to do this or that or nothing, makes you know that you are alone in the unknown world, that your bliss and suffering is forever shared and forever all your own."
--Dylan Thomas


"I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering."
--Robert Frost


"Poetry is, at bottom, a criticism of life."
--Matthew Arnold



"The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together."
--T.S.Eliot


"Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting."
--Robert Frost


"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry."
--Emily Dickinson


"There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind. It is most important of all to reach the heart of the reader."
--Robert Frost


"Modesty is a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world."
--Miguel de Cervantes


"I've had it with these cheap sons of bitches who claim they love poetry but never buy a book."
--Kenneth Rexroth


"I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them, travel abroad, experience the horrors of sordid passion, and - if he is lucky enough - know the love of an honest woman."
--Robert Graves


"Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do."
--Stephen Spender


"Everybody has their own idea of what's a poet. Robert Frost, President Johnson, T.S.Eliot, Rudolf Valentino - they're all poets. I like to think of myself as the one who carries the light bulb."
--Bob Dylan



"In this poor body, composed of one hundred bones and nine openings, is something called spirit, a flimsy curtain swept this way and that by the slightest breeze. It is spirit, such as it is, which led me to poetry, at first little more than a pastime, then the full business of my life. There have been times when my spirit, so dejected, almost gave up the quest, other times when it was proud, triumphant. So it has been from the very start, never finding peace with itself, always doubting the worth of what it makes."
--Basho

[[Lake]]

"Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity."
--William Wordsworth


"A good poet is someone who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightening five or six times; a dozen or two dozen times and he is great."
--Randall Jarrell


"Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds."
--Percy Bysshe Shelley



"Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down."
--Robert Frost


"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things."
--T.S.Eliot


"Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people."
--Adrian Mitchell


"I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is prose; words in their best order; - poetry; the best words in the best order."
--S.T.Coleridge


"Well, write poetry, for God's sake, it's the only thing that matters."
--e. e. cummings


"In my view a good poem is one in which the form of the verse and the joining of its parts seems light as a shallow river flowing over its sandy bed."
--Basho


"Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something. Don't use such an expression as 'dim land of peace.' It dulls the image. It mixes an abstraction with the concrete. It comes from the writer's not realising that the natural object is always the adequate symbol. Go in fear of abstractions.
--Ezra Pound


"Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air".
--Carl Sandburg


"Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things, and hence its importance."
--Matthew Arnold


"Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
--S.T.Coleridge


"To break the pentameter, that was the first heave."
--Ezra Pound


"Poetry is what in a poem makes you laugh, cry, prickle, be silent, makes your toe nails twinkle, makes you want to do this or that or nothing, makes you know that you are alone in the unknown world, that your bliss and suffering is forever shared and forever all your own."
--Dylan Thomas


"I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering."
--Robert Frost


"Poetry is, at bottom, a criticism of life."
--Matthew Arnold



"The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together."
--T.S.Eliot


"Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting."
--Robert Frost


"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry."
--Emily Dickinson


"There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind. It is most important of all to reach the heart of the reader."
--Robert Frost


"Modesty is a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world."
--Miguel de Cervantes


"I've had it with these cheap sons of bitches who claim they love poetry but never buy a book."
--Kenneth Rexroth


"I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them, travel abroad, experience the horrors of sordid passion, and - if he is lucky enough - know the love of an honest woman."
--Robert Graves


"Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do."
--Stephen Spender


"Everybody has their own idea of what's a poet. Robert Frost, President Johnson, T.S.Eliot, Rudolf Valentino - they're all poets. I like to think of myself as the one who carries the light bulb."
--Bob Dylan



"In this poor body, composed of one hundred bones and nine openings, is something called spirit, a flimsy curtain swept this way and that by the slightest breeze. It is spirit, such as it is, which led me to poetry, at first little more than a pastime, then the full business of my life. There have been times when my spirit, so dejected, almost gave up the quest, other times when it was proud, triumphant. So it has been from the very start, never finding peace with itself, always doubting the worth of what it makes."
--Basho

[星子]

thanks for sharing....

http://www.poetrysky.com/forum/poets.html
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[[ANNA]]

thanks for sharing....

http://www.poetrysky.com/forum/poets.html
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[不清]

Ezra Pound 說得很對，過量的形容詞只會削弱詩的本質，但是很多漢語詩仍然犯上這個毛病，使詩歌過份人工化，過份誇張造作。
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「四十二排浪，沒有一排是相似的」——不清

博客：
http://42waves.tumblr.com

[[不清]]

Ezra Pound 說得很對，過量的形容詞只會削弱詩的本質，但是很多漢語詩仍然犯上這個毛病，使詩歌過份人工化，過份誇張造作。
_________________
「四十二排浪，沒有一排是相似的」——不清

博客：
http://42waves.tumblr.com

[博弈]

what a wonderful effort putting them together! Thanks for sharing, indeed.

I wonder, if they sit together in a place, what would that place be called?
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Sometimes I am busy
Sometimes I am free
In between, there's it
Until I find thee...

[[Mark]]

what a wonderful effort putting them together! Thanks for sharing, indeed.

I wonder, if they sit together in a place, what would that place be called?
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Sometimes I am busy
Sometimes I am free
In between, there's it
Until I find thee...

[博弈]

[[Mark]]

[不清]

博弈先生，關於「我」可能是因為現今社會人與人之間的關係疏離，小家庭多，在內地更是一家一小孩，現在的人都過份自我中心吧。「我」大既是反映社會一個現象吧。
_________________
「四十二排浪，沒有一排是相似的」——不清

博客：
http://42waves.tumblr.com

[[不清]]

博弈先生，關於「我」可能是因為現今社會人與人之間的關係疏離，小家庭多，在內地更是一家一小孩，現在的人都過份自我中心吧。「我」大既是反映社會一個現象吧。
_________________
「四十二排浪，沒有一排是相似的」——不清

博客：
http://42waves.tumblr.com

[Lake]

Thank you all. Here are more:

things that are true expressed in words that are beautiful.
--Dante

the art of uniting pleasure with truth by calling imagination to the help of reason.
--Samuel Johnson

musical thought.
--Thomas Carlyle

emotion put into measure.
--Thomas Hardy

speech framed...to be heard for its own sake and interest even over and above its interest of meaning.
--Gerard Manley Hopkins

a way of remembering what it would impoverish us to forget.
--Robert Frost

a revelation in words by means of the words.
--Wallace Stevens

poetry is prose bewitched.
--Mina Loy

not the assertion that something is true, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.
--T.S.Eliot

the clear expression of mixed feelings.
--W. H. Auden

hundreds of things coming together at the right moment.
--Elizabeth Bishop

verse should have two obligations: to communicate a precise instance and to touch us physically, as the presence of the sea does.
--Jorge Luis Borges

reduced to its simplest and most essential form, the poem is a song. Song is neither discourse nor explanation.
--Octavio Paz

poetry is life distilled.
--Gwendolyn Brooks

a poem is something that penetrates from an instant into the unconscious.
--Robert Bly

[[Lake]]

Thank you all. Here are more:

things that are true expressed in words that are beautiful.
--Dante

the art of uniting pleasure with truth by calling imagination to the help of reason.
--Samuel Johnson

musical thought.
--Thomas Carlyle

emotion put into measure.
--Thomas Hardy

speech framed...to be heard for its own sake and interest even over and above its interest of meaning.
--Gerard Manley Hopkins

a way of remembering what it would impoverish us to forget.
--Robert Frost

a revelation in words by means of the words.
--Wallace Stevens

poetry is prose bewitched.
--Mina Loy

not the assertion that something is true, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.
--T.S.Eliot

the clear expression of mixed feelings.
--W. H. Auden

hundreds of things coming together at the right moment.
--Elizabeth Bishop

verse should have two obligations: to communicate a precise instance and to touch us physically, as the presence of the sea does.
--Jorge Luis Borges

reduced to its simplest and most essential form, the poem is a song. Song is neither discourse nor explanation.
--Octavio Paz

poetry is life distilled.
--Gwendolyn Brooks

a poem is something that penetrates from an instant into the unconscious.
--Robert Bly