poetry. ink runs from the corners of my mouth. there is no happiness like mine. i have been eating...

POETRY

INK RUNS FROM THE CORNERS OF MY MOUTH.THERE IS NO HAPPINESS

LIKE MINE.I HAVE BEEN EATING

POETRY.

“Poetry should please by fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reading of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance.”

John Keats

“The rhythmical creation of beauty.”

Edgar Allan Poe

A reaching out towardexpression, an effort to find fullfillment.”

Robert Frost

ever been kidnappedby a poetif i were a poeti'd kidnap youput you in my phrases and meter....Nikki Giovanni

“Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.”

Ishmael Reed

“A poet’s work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it going to sleep.” Salmon Rushdie

How does poetry make people feel?

“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me. I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it.” Emily Dickinson

“I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.”Pablo Neruda

“Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.” Rita Dove

ROBERT FROST

Plato thought of poets as dangerous people.In fact, he set out to ban poets and poetry from his ideal model of the state in book 10of “The Republic”. He thought that poets, like politicians, know that the powerful utterance will find a way to engage our feelings, our hopes, and our anxieties;it will get under our skin.

• “A Poem is not a pop-tart!”

Martin Espada