Poetry

What is Poetry?
"[T]he spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings from emotions recollected in tranquility." --William Wordsworth

"Enthusiasm tamed by metaphor" --Robert Frost

"Poetry is what makes me laugh or cry or yawn, what makes my toenails twinkle, what makes me want to do this or that or nothing." --Dylan Thomas

"If I read a book and it makes my body so cold no fire ever can warm me, I know that is poetry." --Emily Dickinson

"Beauty is truth. Truth, beauty. That is all ye know on Earth and all ye need to know." --John Keats

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A lecture I prepared for the National Endowment of the Humanities: Say Something Wonderful