Poetry Quotes
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All poetry is an ordered voice, one which tries to tell you about a vision in the un-visionary language of farm, city, and love.
Paul Engle
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Poetry is the special medium of spiritual crazy wisdom, the form of expression that comes closest to creating a bridge between words and what is wordless.
Wes Nisker
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I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.
Annie Lennox
Eurythmics
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I rhyme… to see myself, to set the darkness echoing.
Seamus Heaney
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The sublime can only be found in the great subjects. Poetry, history and philosophy all have the same object, and a very great object—Man and Nature. Philosophy describes and depicts Nature. Poetry paints and embellishes it. It also paints men, it aggrandizes them, it exaggerates them, it creates heroes and gods. History only depicts man, and paints him such as he is.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
William Shakespeare
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Poetry either pulses with real life or it's just an aborted simulacra. There's no middle ground.
Andre Naffis-Sahely
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If I was a poet, I had become one because poetry, more intensely than any other practice, could not evade its anachronism and marginality and so constituted a kind of acknowledgment of my own preposterousness, admitting my bad faith in good faith, so to speak.
Ben Lerner
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In most of the world, poetry has such a different reputation than it does in Western culture.
Eliza Griswold
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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.
Han Nolan
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Poetry has a peptic presence. Presently.
Amy King
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In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change.
John Barton
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I didn't start writing songs, honestly, until I started making my album. I was always doing poetry, but I never thought I could write songs. I discouraged myself and thought it was so hard. But starting this process and learning just what it is to be a songwriter and performer taught me that you don't have to feel discouraged about anything.
Alessia Cara
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Composers need words, but they do not necessarily need poetry. The Russian composer, Aleksandr Mossolov, who chose texts from newspaper small ads, had a good point to make. With revolutionary music, any text can be set to work.
James Fenton
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I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
Edith Södergran
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Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.
Mark Strand
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You have to understand a bit about the poetry of the blues to know where the references are coming from.
Van Morrison
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To translate poetry, one has to possess some art, at the very least the art of stylistic re-embodiment.
Joseph Brodsky
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I was seized with a strong desire to write poetry, so strong, in fact, that in imagination I thought I heard a voice crying in my ears – "Write! Write".
I wondered what could be the matter with me, and I began to walk backwards and forwards in a great fit of excitement, saying to myself– "I know nothing about poetry."
William Topaz McGonagall
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in Italy, almost at every step, history and poetry add to the graces of nature, sweeten the memory of the past, and seem to preserve it in eternal youth.
Madame de Stael
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Experience is the basis of poetry.
Gerhart Hauptmann
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We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
Niels Bohr
