Poetic Effect Quotes

Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.

If you laughed earlier in the poem, and I bring you close to tears in the end, that's the best.

Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.

The success of the poem is determined not by how much the poet felt in writing it, but by how much the reader feels in reading it.

Only that is poetry which cleanses and mans me.

Isn't it funny the way some combinations of words can give you--almost apart from their meaning--a thrill like music?

I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

One of poetry's great effects, through its emphasis upon feeling, association, music, and image - things we recognize and respond to even before we understand why - is to guide us toward the part of ourselves so deeply buried that it borders upon the collective.

Every time I read Erin Belieu work I'm pierced in that wonderful way poetry can.

I'm not trying to be a poet on Twitter; I'm trying to be aware of the fact that a very simple sentence, well written, can have a very moving effect without that person knowing why. There's a deep genetic part of you that somehow, even without your permission, recognizes good language when it arrives.

Poetry makes nothing happen.

In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.

What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely.