poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. From LearnThat.org. [Thomas Gray (1716-1771)]
Although I remember fondly a poetry book someone made for me with his own Mad poetry that was a way kewl present!!. From Wordnik.com. [PoeticaL] Reference
That is a use of the term poetry iself, or to be poetic. From Wordnik.com. [Looking For A Word] Reference
Who would deign use the term poetry in such an insane arrangement?. From Wordnik.com. [Feel The Width! (rev)] Reference
The term poetry slam has made its way into the everyday vernacular. From Wordnik.com. [Book Blog - Likely Stories, by Keir Graff - Booklist Online] Reference
Who would deign to use the term poetry in such an insane arrangement?. From Wordnik.com. [Feel the goddamn width!] Reference
It should be said that building a career in poetry is much harder than in science. From Wordnik.com. [Roald Hoffmann - Autobiography] Reference
To read through his entire body of work in poetry is constantly revelatory and rewarding. From Wordnik.com. [small, busy flames : Stephen Burt : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
Many poets have confessed that their indulgence in poetry is merely a way for them to extend their life. From Wordnik.com. [POEMS THAT LAST TAKE TWO : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
This flood of violent feeling and superior intellectuality, rich in poetry, is truly the inspiration of genius. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Literature 1934 - Presentation Speech] Reference
And is this confined to the sight only, or does it extend to the hearing also, relating in fact to what we term poetry?. From Wordnik.com. [The Republic] Reference
Dennis Schmitz and Raymond Carver both pronounced the word poetry with an unusual inflection, something like “poi-tree.”. From Wordnik.com. [Raymond Carver] Reference
Now this definition applies equally to painting and music as to poetry; and in truth the term poetry is alike applicable to all three. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher] Reference
From this perspective, the lyrical topos of nightlife in poetry is the primary form of that which takes place, secondarily, in the world. From Wordnik.com. [Club Monad] Reference
Simon: your comments about Af-Am poets are patronizing. & as I tried to suggest, “intelligence” in poetry is not about “display” or braininess. From Wordnik.com. [Panel 2: Aesthetic Lineage and Originality : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
The word poetry in Greek means “making,” and poetry is a kind of searchlight into our postmortem future, a reconnoitering of possible afterdeath worlds. From Wordnik.com. [Experiencing the Next World Now] Reference
I also wanted to point out to Kenny that the insistence on avant-garde historical progress in poetry is indistinguishable from capitalist planned obsolescence. From Wordnik.com. [Rebels : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
“is like running saliva,” which, in poetry is not pretty. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
I sent what he was writing, the -- what he called poetry, which was not. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 18, 2007] Reference
For Heaney 'poetry' is a means of measuring this gap – if not bridging it. From Wordnik.com. [This Is Not a Spade: The Poetry of Seamus Heaney] Reference
SoQ does not define a type of poetry, but says what a kind of poetry is NOT. From Wordnik.com. [School of Quietitude? : Kenneth Goldsmith : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
Of course, just writing what I call poetry doesn't necessarily make it a great piece of literature. From Wordnik.com. [EzineArticles] Reference
The "Goodwinisation of poetry" has been fought a running battle with what he called the "poetry police". From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
She argued the field of 'poetry' is in a bad way because people self-publish too early, before they blossom. From Wordnik.com. [Poetry] Reference
Aristotle attempts to explain 'poetry' through 'first principles' and by discerning its different genres and component elements. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference
The main character of his poetry is the normal, the universal, the simple, the eternal platform of the best manly & womanly qualities. From Wordnik.com. ['Points of Contact': Blake and Whitman] Reference
Must be conscious of this: that, above everything else, poetry is words; and that words, above everything else, are, in poetry, sounds. From Wordnik.com. [Sounding Romantic: The Sound of Sound] Reference
In its simplest form the temper of adventure has given us the profusion of pleasant verses which we know as the poetry of 'vagabondage' and 'the open road'. From Wordnik.com. [Recent Developments in European Thought] Reference
Rover boys went their old school chums, "Songbird" Powell, who was always making up doggerel which he called poetry; Hans Mueller, already introduced, and Fred Garrison. From Wordnik.com. [The Rover Boys on the Plains The Mystery of Red Rock Ranch] Reference
'For what we call poetry', he wrote to Goethe, 'she has no sense'; nevertheless he gave her full credit for her great qualities, in especial for a good sense amounting to genius. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller] Reference
The spiritual ebb and flow exhibited in English poetry. From Wordnik.com. [An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry] Reference
The English lark sang in American poetry and English lords talked in. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of Authors, British and American] Reference
He took the prize in Latin poetry absolutely "without opening a book.". From Wordnik.com. [The Hohenzollerns in America] Reference
We all might enjoy visiting and re-visiting the best in English poetry together. From Wordnik.com. [Semicolon] Reference
The story of the Trojan War, in the shape in which we find it in Greek poetry, is pure folk-lore 195. From Wordnik.com. [The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest] Reference
Some well-known appearances of this same fable in English poetry may be found in Prior and Montagu's. From Wordnik.com. [Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes] Reference
It is very much alive and current in Welsh poetry and a number of English-language poets have tried their hands at it. From Wordnik.com. [Culture | guardian.co.uk] Reference
The frequency of monosyllabic lines in English poetry will hardly be wondered at, however it may be open to such criticisms as Pope's and. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.] Reference
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