[New-Poetry] What is Poetry?

[TheOldMole]

And I believe it was Hopkins who said that Browning has a way of 
talking, and making his characters talk, like a man jumping up from the 
table with his mouth full of bread and cheese, and saying he will stand 
for no blasted nonsense.

David Graham wrote:
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> On Jul 2, 2007, at 12:14 PM, jforjames at aol.com 
> <mailto:jforjames at aol.com> wrote:
>> David, I'm happy to have this quote. When encountering one of those 
>> gauzy poems full of abstractions 
>> and conventionally poetic images, I have stock line..."What this poem 
>> needs is a toaster."
>> Finnegan
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> One of my favorite quotes is from Melville, who commented that Emerson 
> wrote like a man who had never had a toothache.  I sometimes explain 
> the difference between Emerson's and Whitman's take on 
> Transcendentalism with this quotation.  Whitman includes the amputated 
> limb dropping horribly in a pail; Emerson does not.
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> I've lost the exact reference for Melville's remark, if anyone would 
> like to enlighten me.
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