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

=2009 Poetry Picture Project= See directions and post your work here.

=**__Share your favorite poem or read someone else's favorites:__**= = = = =


 * __Video Examples:__**

W.H. [|Auden's] "Stop All the Clocks" as used in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral.

Billy [|Collins]' "[|Forgetfulness]" animated

Allen [|Ginsberg's] "Father Death Blues"

A lecture I prepared for the National Endowment of the Humanities: ="Teaching the Pleasures of Poetry"=