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Maxwell Bodenheim

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

For me poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.

Poets aren’t very useful because they aren’t consumeful or very produceful.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door leaving those who look through to guess what is seen during a moment.

Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land wanting to fly in the air.

Rudyard Kipling

There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays and every single one of them is right.

Poetry is a mug’s game.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Reason respects the differences and imagination the similitudes of things.

The poet’s mind is … a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings phrases images which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.

William Butler Yeats

Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry.

A poem begins with a lump in the throat a homesickness or alovesickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.