One of the things that distinguishes poetry from ordinary speech is that in a very few number of words, poetry captures some kind of deep feeling, and rhythm is the way to get there. Rhythm is the way the poetry carries itself.
Edward Hirsch
Related A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, ... PEGGY NOONAN Highly important in poetry is Rhythm, but the word means merely 'flow,' so that rhythm belongs to pr... ROBERT HUNTINGTON FLETCHER Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well. AJAY NAIDU Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the wo... JACK PRELUTSKY Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of di... ASGHAR FARHADI The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice. EARLE BIRNEY The artistic methods of poetry, painting, photography, and writing share certain commonalities of de... KILROY J. OLDSTER Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech. SIMONIDES Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech SIMONIDES Poetry contains few words but tells much. Its beauty is that by being condensed it is rich in meanin... SALIL JHA I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded ... PAUL ENGLE At school, I was never given a sense that poetry was something flowery or light. It's a complex ... TOBIAS HILL My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simple... JAMES FENTON "Business is all poetry. To make it work, one needs to find rhythm."
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LEAH SLONE A lot of people feel that the realm of poetry and the realm of the lyric is personal feeling and sho... CLAUDIA RANKINE I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, pro... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, pro... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, pro... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Sri Lanka is an island that everyone loves at some level inside themselves. A very special island th... ROMESH GUNESEKERA The idea of how to read a poem is based on the idea that poetry needs you as a reader. That the expe... EDWARD HIRSCH I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I think people feel that when they look at the print. The closest thing I can think of is poetry, wh... HOLLY DOWNING Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth -- the true poet is very near the oracle. EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth--the true poet is very near the oracle. EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle. EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON The secret of my success is my hairspray. RICHARD GERE Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too. PATRICK ROTHFUSS I read a lot of poetry, and I love what it does with language. I love music, too, and I think there&... KATE GRENVILLE Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poe... SALVATORE QUASIMODO Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time. W.S. MERWIN It is the best way to write poetry, letting things come." -Winnie-the-Pooh A.A. MILNE One merit of poetry few persons will deny; it says more, and in few words, than prose VOLTAIRE For an American, there's no automatic place where people love the art of poetry. There's not... ROBERT PINSKY Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of... C. K. WILLIAMS If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, ... A. R. AMMONS When poetry separates from song, then the words have to carry all the rhythm themselves; they have t... EDWARD HIRSCH Money is a kind of poetry. WALLACE STEVENS Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody. JOSHUA LOGAN ...the trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry... BILLY COLLINS Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. VIRGINIA WOOLF Fee-fi-fo-fum - Now I'm borrowed. Now I'm numb. ANNE SEXTON Some people think that English poetry begins with the Anglo-Saxons. I don't, because I can't... JAMES FENTON Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnec... JOHN BERGER This pattern is fundamental to probably all Japanese art, particularly the performing arts or poetry... GARY MATHEWS There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality RICHARD DAWKINS There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in everything, everywhere we look. ALI SMITH If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. MUHAMMAD IQBAL I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exp... MARK STRAND Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. THOMAS GRAY Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. Loving someone who never loved you, is like remembering a face you never saw. No matter how har... RATISH EDWARDS There will be things I won't tell you ever , Then there will be things that you won't ever lis... RATISH EDWARDS I wish I could see you some day, Just for a moment, just see you, I wish I could h... RATISH EDWARDS There is only beauty -- and it has only one perfect expression -- poetry. All the rest is a lie --ex... STEPHANE MALLARME There is only beauty / and it has only one perfect expression / poetry. All the rest is a lie /excep... STéPHANE MALLARMé One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. VOLTAIRE The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS Poetry is nothing but healthy speech. HENRY DAVID THOREAU Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. MUHAMMAD IQBAL His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING Poetry can bridge that gap between what is solid and what is suggested; poetry can pull cogent meani... BRYANT MCGILL We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d... MUDITHA CHAMPIKA Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls. VOLTAIRE The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The... LAURA RIDING The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people. CRAIG GROESCHEL Poetry is breathing words that gives a reader pause. ANKITA SINGHAL Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat. P... KAMAND KOJOURI Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for har... HORACE WALPOLE Someone who's awake in the middle of the night is a soul consciousness when everyone else is asl... EDWARD HIRSCH The end is the matter! A step to the end is a factor! ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I... EMILY DICKINSON Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. PLUTARCH While a picture paints a thousand words, a thousand words paints a masterpiece. WILLIE HAYNES One way poetry connects is across time. . . . Some echo of a writer's physical experience comes into... JANE HIRSHFIELD I can't understand Urdu, Bahasa or Russian, but when the Pakistani Faiz, the Indonesian Rendra a... F. SIONIL JOSE One of the things that is wonderful about hymns is that they are a sort of universally shared poetry... MARILYNNE ROBINSON There is safety in numbness– there is solace in sleep. LANG LEAV
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