John Lennon Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
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When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.
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If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.
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Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.
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It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are indebted to it, more than they imagine, for the success they may have achieved, even in practical pursuits, and for the enjoyment their lives have afforded them.
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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Poetry is the deification of reality.
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Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.
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It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese.
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Denise Mina is probably one of the most gifted writers out there, whether it's mystery or literary or whatever label you want to give it.
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The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere.
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I love mystery novels... I love seeing the dramas played out in academic departments, particularly English departments. I started reading these when I was going up for tenure.
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I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who read it will write it.
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Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays.
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I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.
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I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.
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Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.
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When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.
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'Let your occupations be few,' says the sage, 'if you would lead a tranquil life.'
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Music to me is so internal. It's physical and it's emotional. Whereas fashion is so much about the external that it's almost like a break. It's not inner turmoil. It's total escapism.
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Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still, it is never complete.
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Knowledge must come through action.
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How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.
