Great Sayings on POETRY -1

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"Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for
abstract figures, triangles, spheres, and the like, but equations for the human
emotions."
--Erza Pound (The Spirit of Romance)
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"I suppose what, in the long run, makes the poet is a sort of persistence of the
emotional nature, and, joined with this, a peculiar sort of control."
--Erza Pound (The Serious Artist)
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Thre are 3 kinds of Poetry:
(1) MELOPOEIA: The words are charged over and above their plain meaning
    with some musical property which directs the bearing or trend of that
    meaning.
(2) PHANOPOEIA: A casting of images upon the visual imagination.
(3) LOGOPOEIA: "The dance of the intellect among words."
--Erza Pound (How To Read)
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"The substance of poetry is truth seen in passion."
--T.S.Eliot
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"IMMATURE POETS IMITATE;
 MATURE POETS STEAL;
 BAD POETS DEFACE WHAT THEY TAKE;
 GOOD POETS MAKE IT INTO SOMETHING BETTER OR AT LEAST SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
 --Philip Massinger
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