Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.
Joseph Roux
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Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production. -
I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing. -
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry. -
Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. -
I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream.
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- The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
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- Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.