#poetry

Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help. ↗

#deep #deep feeling #feeling #good #help

My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand. ↗

#definition #old #poetry #teacher #understand

No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#before #blaze #crest #every #flowers

No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

#art form #concern #essential #form #language

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#life #remembering #worth

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#cannot #contempt #else #heart #himself

I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#i #making #poetry #possible

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#expectation #groups #mutually #poetry #political

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#fact #in fact #itself #lyric #medium

Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew. ↗