Poetry is…
“Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power.
Poetry is boned with ideas,
nerved and blooded with emotions,
all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.”
—Paul Engle, New York Times ( 17 Feb. 1957)
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poetic pause…
“Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.”
– Paul Engle
poetic cause & affect…
“Poetry is boned with ideas,
nerved and blooded with emotions,
all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.”
– Paul Engle
Paul Engle
“Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet’s abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.”
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