Poetry Tips & Tricks 9
What is Poetry?
Poetry is...
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POETRY IS LANGUAGE IN ORBIT seamus heaney POETRY’S A ZOO IN WHICH YOU
KEEP DEMONS AND ANGELS les murray POETRY IS WHAT MAKES THE INVISIBLE APPEAR
nathalie sarraute POETRY IS PROSE, BENT OUT OF SHAPE j patrick lewis POETRY IS
A PACKSACK OF INVISIBLE KEEPSAKES carl sandburg POETRY IS WHAT GETS LOST IN
TRANSLATION robert frost POETRY IS EITHER LANGUAGE LIT UP BY LIFE OR LIFE LIT UP
BY LANGUAGE peter porter POETRY IS THE IMPISH ATTEMPT TO PAINT THE COLOR OF
THE WIND maxwell bodenheim POETRY IS DEEP GOSSIP liam rector POETRY IS THE
LANGUAGE IN WHICH MAN EXPLORES HIS OWN AMAZEMENT christopher fry POETRY
IS THE ART OF SUBSTANTIATING SHADOWS edmund burke POETRY IS PLUCKING AT THE
HEARTSTRINGS, AND MAKING MUSIC WITH THEM dennis gabor POETRY IS A BRILLIANT
VIBRATING INTERFACE BETWEEN THE HUMAN AND THE NON-HUMAN edwin morgan
POETRY IS THE RHYTHMICAL CREATION OF BEAUTY IN WORDS edgar allan poe POETRY
IS AN ENERGY-STORING AND AN ENERGY-RELEASING DEVICE miroslav holub POETRY
IS THE ART OF UNITING PLEASURE WITH TRUTH samuel johnson POETRY IS LANGUAGE AT
ITS MOST NOURISHING. IT’S THE BREAST MILK OF LANGUAGE robert crawford POETRY
IS AN ECHO, ASKING A SHADOW TO DANCE carl sandburg POETRY IS LIFE DISTILLED gwendolyn brooks POETRY IS WHEN AN EMOTION HAS FOUND ITS THOUGHT AND THE
THOUGHT HAS FOUND WORDS robert frost POETRY IS ORDINARY LANGUAGE RAISED
TO THE NTH POWER paul engle POETRY IS THOUGHTS THAT BREATHE, AND WORDS THAT
BURN thomas gray POETRY IS ALL THAT IS WORTH REMEMBERING IN LIFE william hazlitt
POETRY IS THE OIL OF LIFE john betjeman POETRY IS A PERFECTLY POSSIBLE MEANS OF
OVERCOMING CHAOS i a richards POETRY IS TO PROSE AS DANCING IS TO WALKING john wain POETRY IS JUST THE EVIDENCE OF LIFE leonard cohen POETRY IS FROSTED
FIRE j patrick lewis POETRY IS NEARER TO VITAL TRUTH THAN HISTORY plato POETRY CAN
BE YOUR PRAYER terri guillemets POETRY IS A LITTLE MYTH OF MAN’S CAPACITY OF
MAKING LIFE MEANINGFUL robert penn warren POETRY IS THE SYNTHESIS OF HYACINTHS
AND BISCUITS carl sandburg POETRY IS THE TUNNEL AT THE END OF THE LIGHT j patrick
lewis POETRY BEGINS IN DELIGHT AND ENDS IN WISDOM robert frost POETRY IS NOT AN
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