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Poetry gives us hairy nothings a yoke on imagination and a game. 2008/5/20 Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]>: > Poetry is what I do when I'm lucky. > > At 11:38 PM 5/19/2008, you wrote: >> >> *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/ > -- David Bircumshaw Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/ The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk