Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which is very serious. That balance is very hard to strike. But it can be done.
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
Poetry endures when it possesses passionate and primally sincere clarity in the service of articulating universal human concerns.
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.
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