“All poetry is the reproduction of the tones of speech”
Modern American Poetry 1950
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Louis Untermeyer 5
American poet 1885–1977Related quotes
Letter to Lyudmila Shestakova, July 30, 1868; Jay Leyda and Sergei Bertensson The Musorgsky Reader (1947) p. 113.
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“Poetry, the noble brotherhood who speak in tones of harmony, grandeur & pathos.”
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“True poetry was never speech, but always song.”
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quoted in McLuhan: A Guide for the Perplexed by W. Terrence Gordon, 2010, p. 167
1980s
Introduction
The Wedge (1944)
Context: Each speech having its own character, the poetry it engenders will be peculiar to that speech also in its own intrinsic form. The effect is beauty, what in a single object resolves our complex feelings of propriety.
“The language of poetry is the only speech which has in it the power of permanent impression”
Introduction
Bards of the Bible, 1850
Book III, Chapter 3, p. 374
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