Poetry Quotes
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In fact, lots of good poetry doesn't work , so I don't mind a bit of mystification or difficulty.
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I've always loved the poetry in 'Pale Fire.' I think it's wonderful.
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But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.
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I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I realized poetry could be put to music and become a song.
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If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.
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Get rid of words, and get rid of meaning, and still there is poetry.
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The five excellences include: calligraphy, painting, poetry, medicine, and t'ai chi chuan.
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It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.
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Poetry is fired by love.
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Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all time... Dante does not efface Homer.
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I have heard that hysterical women say They are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow, Of poets that are always gay
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Howard Altmann has found a way to make language transform itself. If the elusive moment between I and Thou could speak, it might be one of his quietly amazing lines-'you ask the silence to invert itself / like a gymnast in the dark . . . ' Without a trace of rhetoric, In This House reminds us of the power of poetry: to show us how to live in a world in which we are strangers. It's a thrill to come close to such an original and deeply realized art.
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Poetry is how I feed the soul, and it's how I fire the furnace of writing.
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Men of real talents in Arms have commonly approved themselves patrons of the liberal arts and friends to the poets, of their own as well as former times. In some instances by acting reciprocally, heroes have made poets, and poets heroes.
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When we share - that is poetry in the prose of life.
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The grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.
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It is not the word that is the original material of poetry, rather the letter.
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I am addicted to poetry, but the truth is I cannot pass up a good hard-boiled mystery.
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In traditional Asian arts, the word and the picture always sit next to each other. I have an aunt, a Chinese brush painter, who told me that when you do a Chinese brush painting, you have to pair the image up with some poetry.
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The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet.
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I did not always know I would be a writer. Until I had a room of my own, I did not write much at all - no more than any other child who read a lot of books. I began to write fiction and poetry when I first had a room that was truly my own with a door that shut and some measure, however fragile, of privacy.
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Poetry? It's a hobby.I run model trains.Mr Shaw there breeds pigeons.It's not work. You don't sweat.Nobody pays for it.You could advertise soap.
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Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
