PEN

What poetry could be, cannot be described with any pen.


Antoon Van den Braembussche




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HEAVEN

Poetry must emerge from life in just as natural a way as trees, flowers, and fruits come from the earth, from the rich earth, in full view of the sky.


Anatole France



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CLOUD

Poetry walks on the street and the poets look for it in the clouds. Luckily, he who finds it finds it where it is: in the truth and everywhere.


Alphonse de Lamartine



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CARDINAL POINT

Poetry is the fifth cardinal direction.


Jan Greshoff



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THREE

Poetry and poetry are three very different things.


Paul Rodenko



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PLACE

Often, a place that starts a poem for me is one I have only glimpsed while passing through. It should make impression enough that I can see things in the town-the water tower, the bank, the last movie announced on the marquee before the theater shut down for good, the closed hotel-long after I've left. Sometimes these are imagined things I find if I go back, but real or imagined, they act as a set of stable knowns that sit outside the poem. They and the town serve as a base of operations for the poem. Sometimes they serve as a stage setting. I would never try to locate a serious poem in a place where physical evidence suggests that the people there find it relatively easy to accept themselves-say the new Hilton. The poet's relation to the triggering subject should never be as strong as (must be weaker than) his relation to his words. The words should not serve the subject. The subject should serve the words. This may mean violating the facts. For example, if the poem needs the word "black" at some point and the grain elevator is yellow, the grain elevator may have to be black in the poem. You owe reality nothing and the truth about your feelings everything.


Richard Hugo



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MISTRESS

Poetry isn’t a profession / It’s not knitting // It might be a mistress.


Maarten Embrechts



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