Yevgeny Yevtushenko Quotes
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Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.
Manuel Puig
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I don't fear anything now.
G. Gordon Liddy
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I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
Edmund Wilson
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I think poetry always lives its life, and people come to it and people go away from it, 'people' in the sense of larger numbers of people. It's as though you begin to think that poetry is a resource, and that at certain times people seem to need it or want it or can find sustenance in it, and at other times they can't.
C. K. Williams
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Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.
Octavio Paz
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If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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I opened my veins. Unstoppably life spurts out with no remedy. Now I set out bowls and plates. Every bowl will be shallow. Every plate will be small. And overflowing their rims, into the black earth, to nourish the rushes unstoppably without cure, gushes poetry.
Marina Tsvetaeva
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What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.
John Ruskin
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I'm not a prosecutor at home. I don't talk about my day, because nobody's interested. I might do something frivolous, like bead.
Jeanine Pirro
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If I get to Heaven, which I very much doubt, I will ask of God just one thing, and that is to send Shakespeare back down to earth, and make him sit a University of Madras examination in Shakespeare, just for the pleasure of watching him failing the exam.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
