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Poetry
«A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart»
Author: Peggy Noonan
(Author, Journalist, Political analyst)
| About:
Poetry,
Speech
| Keywords:
beanbag, cadence, dullest, imagery, reminds, rhythm, sweep
«By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination; the art of doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colors»
«Behold,A ram caught in a thicket by its horns;Offer the Ram of Pride instead of him.But the old man would not so, but slew his son...»
«Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.»
Author: Dylan Thomas
(Playwright, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Poetry
| Keywords:
certainty, conviction, harsh, harsher, lends, poems, typed, typescript
«But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.»
«A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.»
«Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| About:
Experience,
Poetry
| Keywords:
complain, consciences, examine, genuinely, modern, obscurities, obscurity, occasions, profoundly, shared
«By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, English is a magnificent vehicle for emotional poetry»
Author: Max Beerbohm
(Wit, Writer)
| About:
Emotion,
Poetry
| Keywords:
evoking, looseness, magnificent, suggesting
