Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
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All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.
Great poetry does not have to be technically intricate.
That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.
There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.
One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime.
That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the pronouncements of a Plato can disestablish.
Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
At school, I was never given a sense that poetry was something flowery or light. It's a complex and controlled way of using language. Rhythms and the music of it are very important. But the difficulty is that poetry makes some kind of claim of honesty.
Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.
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