sexta-feira, maio 25, 2007

Citações sobre Poesia

"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."
- Robert Frost

"Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure."
- A. E. Housman

"Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. "
- Carl Sandburg

"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance."
- Carl Sandburg

"Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment."
- Carl Sandburg

"If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone."
- Thomas Hardy

"Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."
- Don Marquis

"A poem is never finished, only abandoned."
- Paul Valery

"Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason."
- Novalis

"The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life."
- Robert Penn Warren

"Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history."
- Platão

"The poem is the point at which our strength gave out."
- Richard Rosen


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