Poetry is...

Paradiso, Tracey -- on May 1 2007, from Spanktown
Split coconut.

These quotes were part of the Sunday NY Times magazine crossword puzzle on April 22, 2007. It was a tough one, one of the few my husband and I didn't finish.

Poetry is...

"...like fish. If its fresh it's good."
~Osbert Sitwell

"...truth in its Sunday clothes."
~Joseph Roux

"...an echo asking a shadow to dance."
~Carl Sandburg

"...the deification of reality."
~Edith Sitwell

"...an act of peace."
~Pablo Neruda

"...being, not doing."
~e.e. cummings

Leanne from Just west of the lounge room Associate, 3019 posts	Edit · Delete on May 1 2007 My very favourite is from Soren Kierkegaard (no surprise I guess): A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: "Sing for us soon again;" that is as much as to say, "May new sufferings torment your soul"
Derma Kaput from Possum Grape, Arkansas Associate, 1497 posts	Edit · Delete on May 1 2007 All those quotes are wonderful, especially Sitwell and cummings, but I think Kierkegaard takes the cake.
Anstey from Lowell, MA Associate, 5571 posts	Edit · Delete on May 1 2007 Ayup. ----- stephan
Tracey from Spanktown Associate, 1891 posts	Edit · Delete on May 1 2007 Kierkegaard's quote might be a wee bit long for a crossword puzzle, but it's definitely a keeper.
Anstey from Lowell, MA Associate, 5571 posts	Edit · Delete inspired from Tracey on May 3 2007 " Kierkegaard's quote might be a wee bit long for a crossword puzzle, but it's definitely a keeper. " Depends on the crossword i guess. I mean sure, if you get to 23 across and it's 300 letters, that's the one i'd guess. ----- stephan

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