SS

Reading poems by Lucebert I get the feeling the SS has marched right into poetry.

Bertus Aafjes



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EXPRESSION (3)

First of all it is a delight when you compose a poem or a collection of poetry and can see that the material, initially indistinct, by words and images is developed into something full of expression.

Doina Ioanid



Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.

W.H. Auden (1907 - 1973)



Form is never more than an expression of content.

Charles Olson



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NAVEL-GAZING

Game and reality: I believe the tension between these two elements is required to write poetry. What one experiences, feels, should get another dimension than just autobiographical facts, should become that other reality. What would poetry otherwise be than indulging in navel-gazing?

Roger Nupie



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REGULATIONS

Poetry can't be regulated: if it comes, it does come. And when it comes, she takes over.

Lucienne Stassaert



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ORDER

Prose = words in their best order; — poetry = the best words in the best order.


Samuel Taylor Coleridge


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INSTINCT

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Socrates


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