Poems are language turned into art; sound and sense matter; they can be as long or longer than … - Campbell McGrath

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A basic language-literacy of Nature is falling from us. And what is being lost along with this literacy is something perhaps even more valuable: a kind of language-magic, the power that certain words possess to enchant our imaginative relations with Nature and landscape.

Campbell McGrath

Poems are language turned into art; sound and sense matter; they can be as long or longer than The Odyssey or as short or shorter than a haiku. Not very helpful.

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The shape that poems make in the mind is an echo of something powerful in the cosmos. I do believe that, and that is certainly irrational, so perhaps I am no wiser than Elizabeth Perkins as to the nature of poetry.

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People who publish poetry today do it from a sense that poetry needs to be published, not because they think they are going to make money.

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Poetry resonates differently in each culture; it doesn't in America.

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I like each of my books to be different. Once I've done something I like to move on and push myself to learn new things and expand the limits of poetic form.

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All of the arts are kin - music and sculpture and dance, those are wordless art forms. But poetry is defined by language. Of course, each art is distinct, and has its own character - not just in terms of media, but in terms of what seems to lie at the heart of it.

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