' Poetry speaks most effectively and inclusively (whether in free or formal verse) when it recognizes its connection - without apology - to its musical and ritualistic origins', Dana Gioia, ' The Dark Horse', 2015, p.13.

Unlike painting or sculpture, poetry can deal with any and every topic in any and every fashion because in the final analysis what poetry really expresses is the mind's apprehension of itself to itself in itself', ' Derrida, Hegel, and the Language of Finitude', Jan Mieszkowski, Poetry's uniqueness stems from the fact that the subject and the object of poetry, the medium and the message, are one and the same. In contrast to many of his contemporaries who make similar claims, however, Hegel never wavers in insisting that poetry is the crisis of art as much as it is its triumph.

' Hegel declares that poetry is supreme among the arts, combining music's apprehension of the inner life of the mind with the determinate phenomenal character of sculpture and painting.

' Of all the arts poetry (which owes its originĪlmost entirely to genius and will least be guidedīy precept or example) maintains the first rank', Kant, ' Critique of Judgement', p.215.The Study of Literature', Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975, p.189

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' Poetry lies at the centre of the literary experienceīecause it is the form that most clearly asserts the specificity of literature', Jonathan Culler,.

' The empty image: new models of the poetic trope', Syntax, grammar and logical continuity, which together form theĬarrier-wave of plain sense within which its deeper meanings are broadcast.', Don Paterson, Structures for the production of its effects.

' Poetry, unlike music, is a meta-art, and relies upon non-physical.

Poetry was like theatre, as in Yeats like music, as in Pasternak and Eliot and like sculpture, as in Pound', Denis Donoghue, ' Words Alone', 2000

' One of was that there were three useful analogies for the understanding of literature in general and modern literature in particular.

' poetry is music set to words', Dennis O'Driscoll.

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