In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.
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One characteristic of modern poetry is that arrangement of parts which strikes many people as being violent or obscure.
Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.
The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.
Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.
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.
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