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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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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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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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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There Poetry shall tune her sacred voice,And wake from ignorance the Western World.
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Sometimes the beauty is easy.Sometimes you don't have to try at all.Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake.Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.
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I have a band called M&O. We were working on our first album in 2011 or 2012. We were looking for people to collaborate with, and I met Chance through a Young Chicago Authors poetry slam.
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The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all.
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I don't really feel famous. I'm just an internet guy. I walk down the street and people don't really mess with me too much. I still have my life.
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I'm a living testimony that anything is possible.
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How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.
