Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.
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Poems are a form of music, and language just happens to be our instrument - language and breath.
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.
Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.
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