What is Poetry?

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Sadness 4 by jurek d. on Flickr.

Ghosts.

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"As if the water that I am might find a better form, rise above, in a body composed of something..."

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“As if the water that I am
might find a better form,
rise above, in a body composed
of something other than lust and sorrow,
or simply slip down into this water,
which atones, and forgets, and need not speak.”

- John Brehm, from “Supplication at the River” (via proustitute)

"You hold an absence at your center, as if it were a life."

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 01:07:20 -0400

“You hold an absence
at your center,
as if it were a life.”

- Richard Brostoff, from “Grief” (via proustitute)

"Thus when I come to shape here at this table between my hands the story of my life and set it before..."

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 21:17:04 -0400

“Thus when I come to shape here at this table between my hands the story of my life and set it before you as a complete thing, I have to recall things gone far, gone deep, sunk into this life or that and become part of it; dreams, too, things surrounding me, and the inmates, those old half-articulate ghosts who keep up their hauntings by day and night; who turn over in their sleep, who utter their confused cries, who put out their phantom fingers and clutch at me as I try to escape—shadows of people one might have been; unborn selves.”

- Virginia Woolf, The Waves (via proustitute)

Rene’ Char: The poet bursts the bonds of what he touches. He does not teach the end of...

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 03:27:58 -0400

Rene’ Char: The poet bursts the bonds of what he touches. He does not teach the end of bonds.

Adrienne Rich: She cannot teach the end of bonds; but she can refuse to justify, accord with, ignore their existence.

"Poetry is neither an end in itself nor a means to some external end. It’s a human activity..."

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 02:58:14 -0400

“Poetry is neither an end in itself nor a means to some external end. It’s a human activity enmeshed with human existence…”

- Adrienne Rich, “James Scully’s Art of Praxis”

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“Poems are voiceprints of language.”

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“Poems are voiceprints of language.”

Poetry is my metonym for art.

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Poetry is my metonym for art.

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Crazy Child Writes: How To Be a Poet

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Crazy Child Writes: How To Be a Poet:

trombonesnowcone:

i. form language that leaves puddles of
glistening pus, streaks of slime, words that are
secretly slugs. write things like
flesh and embodiment and disintegrate and putrid and
don’t use them lightly.

ii. recognize when other people are
playing tricks on you. fall for
every
single
one….

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"The only transformation that interests me is a total transformation — however minute. I want the..."

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 23:07:39 -0400

“The only transformation that interests me is a total transformation — however minute. I want the encounter with a person or a work of art to change everything.”

- Susan Sontag in her diary

"True poetic practice implies a mind so miraculously attuned and illuminated that it can form words,..."

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 23:06:00 -0400

“True poetic practice implies a mind so miraculously attuned and illuminated that it can form words, by a chain of more-than coincidences, into a living entity — a poem that goes about on its own (for centuries after the author’s death, perhaps) affecting readers with its stored magic.”

- Edward Hirsch, “How to Read a Poem”

"What is poetry? And why has it been around so long? … When you really feel it, a new part of you..."

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 23:04:57 -0400

“What is poetry? And why has it been around so long? … When you really feel it, a new part of you happens, or an old part is renewed, with surprise and delight at being what it is.”

- James Dickey, ”How to Enjoy Poetry”

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