Rainbow Review: Poetry Pages

"Poetry is the revelation of a feeling
that the poet believes to be interior and personal but which
the reader recognizes as his own."
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Quasimodo, Salvatore,
in the New York Times (Dec 1949)

COMMUNITY POETS
IN THE RAINBOW REVIEW
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BAZ:
Paints as easily with acrylics onto canvas as with words on the page.
Her unique style draws on the colours and patterns of the exotic places in which she has lived. Here she shares a poem about:
"The Artist"

KARI LI
A poet and explorer, whose sensitive observation and documentation takes the reader on trans-continental journies to some of the wildest parts of the planet as well as to some of the wildest parts of the soul. Read on..
"The Living of Life When it Thinks It's A lone..."

SHIRLEY HIGGINS

An artist- musician whose poems are the words that float
timelessly through the glowing worlds of light that her paintings explore. They are part of the songs that her paintings sing. Read on...
"Music..Can lighten my load for an hour or two..."

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AUTHOR: John Keats
QUOTATION: " Poetry should be great and unobtrusive,
a thing which enters one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it
with itself. but with its subject. ."
ATTRIBUTION: In a letter to J.H.Reynolds (3 Feb 1818)
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AUTHOR: T.S. Eliot
QUOTATION:"Genuine poetry can communicate before
it is understood.."
ATTRIBUTION: "Dante" (1929)
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AUTHOR: Carl Sandburg
QUOTATION: "Poetry is the opening and closing of a door.
leaving those who look through to guess about what was seen
during that moment."
ATTRIBUTION: "Tentative (First Model) Definitions of Poetry", Complete Poems, (1950)
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AUTHOR: Somerset Maugham
QUOTATION: "The crown of literature is poetry.
It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind.
It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes."
ATTRIBUTION: In The Saturday Review, (20 July 1957).
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