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Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. (Kilcher Jewel)
Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words. (Kilcher Jewel)
Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement... says heaven and earth in one word... speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time. It has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time. (Kilcher Jewel)
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. (Kilcher Jewel)
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. (Kilcher Jewel)
Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature. (Kilcher Jewel)
The essence of poetry is will and passion. (Kilcher Jewel)
Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else. (Kilcher Jewel)
The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that is impatient of all limit; that (as flame bends to flame) strives to link itself to some other image of kindred beauty or grandeur; to enshrine itself, as it were, in the highest forms of fancy, and to relieve the aching sense of pleasure by expressing it in the boldest manner. (Kilcher Jewel)
The man is either mad, or he is making verses. (Kilcher Jewel)
No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers. (Kilcher Jewel)
Every old poem is sacred. (Kilcher Jewel)
Poets wish to profit or to please. (Kilcher Jewel)
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water. (Kilcher Jewel)
A person born with an instinct for poverty. (Kilcher Jewel)
You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you. (Kilcher Jewel)
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. (Kilcher Jewel)
Inside every man there is a poet who died young. (Kilcher Jewel)
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity --it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. (Kilcher Jewel)
Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive. (Kilcher Jewel)
Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose. (Kilcher Jewel)
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