A work of art is good if it has grown out of necessity. In this manner of its origin lies its true estimate: there is no other. Rainer Maria Rilke.

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A work of art expresses a conception of life, emotion, inward reality. But it is neither a confesional nor a frozen tantrum; it is a developed metaphor, a nondiscursive symbol that articulates what is verbally ineffable- the logic of consciousness itself. Susan K. Langer.

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To find my home in one sentence, concise, as if hammered in metal. Not to enchant anybody. Not to gain a lasting name in posterity. An unnamed need for order, for rhythm, for form, which three words we oppose to chaos and nothigness. Czeslaw Milosz.

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I believe that every poem must be its own sole freshly created universe, and therefore have no
belief in ‘tradition’ or a common myth-kitty or casual allususion in poems to other poems or poets. Phillips Larkin.

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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity. He difusses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends and (as it were) fuses, each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

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Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of thinking.
All poetry is experimental poetry.
There is no wing like meaning.
One reads poetry with one’s nerves.
Poetry is a pheasant disappearing in the brush.
Wallace Stevens.