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The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology. – Basil Bunting

What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic – this is by no means the same thing. – Fernand Leger

Poetry must be made by all and not by one. – Comte de Lautreamont

So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us. – Tracy K. Smith

Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or her. – David Lehman

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. – John Andrew Holmes

Poetry is a sort of homecoming. – Paul Celan

Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something. – Amy Clampitt

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence. – Edmund Clarence Stedman

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence. – J. G. Stedman

Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life. – William Rose Benet

Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody. – Joshua Logan

I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat. – Alfred Edward Housman

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language. – Lucille Clifton

Some say they see poetry in my paintings I see only science. – Georges Seurat

For me, poetry is always a search for order. – Elizabeth Jennings

All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears. – Alfred Douglas

For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ. – Christopher Smart

Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job. – Toi Derricotte

Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold. – Diane Glancy