Poetry Quotes
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Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.
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The arts of speech are rhetoric and poetry. Rhetoric is the art of transacting a serious business of the understanding as if it were a free play of the imagination; poetry that of conducting a free play of the imagination as if it were a serious business of the understanding.
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We are supposed to write poetry to keep the gods alive.
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Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
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Poetry had everything to teach me about life.
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Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band, because it becomes a unified thing that can't be related to other forms of historical poetry.
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That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what exists, but even more like the truth.
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I believe that poetry should communicate.
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Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion.
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Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn’t know what else to be.
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Poetry either pulses with real life or it's just an aborted simulacra. There's no middle ground.
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Poetry makes people nervous. Especially in schools.
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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
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I could feel it--inside, and I decided that night, reading poetry beneath a caged light bulb, that real was when you could fee your whole body light up from within.
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
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The essence of poetry is will and passion.
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Poetry is unfallen speech. Paradise knew no other, for no other would suffice to answer the need of those ecstatic days of innocence.
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The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet.
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People who look for symbolic meaning fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of the images.
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There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power.
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I've always used poetry to explain myself to myself. These things just sat in my psyche and then came out.
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Take the sweet poetry of life away, and what remains behind?
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Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
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Is not poetry the food of love?
