*From Poetry Daily* -
On Tuesday we (Poetry Daily http://www.poems.com/) continue our series of
prose features with "What Is It Anyway," from *Quote Poet Unquote:
Contemporary Quotations on Poets and Poetry*, edited by *Dennis O'Driscoll*,
just out from Copper Canyon Press:
"Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley."
—*Charles Simic*
"Poetry is energy, it is an energy-storing and an energy-releasing device."
—*Miroslav Holub*
"Poetry is the eroticization of thought—psychic vitality."
—*Cal Bedient*
"A poem... is the attire of feeling: the literary form where words seem
tailor-made for memory or desire."
—*Carol Ann Duffy*
*From me:*
Please - contribute your own!
--
Andrew
http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
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