Poetry Quotes
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I am a patriot, but I must say that English poetry is the richest in the world.
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Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.
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“If the impress on the imagination is that of a high poetic form it is not because the poetry is 'allegorically' imposed on the stuff, but because the stuff is allowed to render up its own poetic essences.”
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Poetry: What kind of art assumes the dislike of its audience and what kind of artist aligns herself with that dislike, even encourages it? An art hated from without and within.
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I rhyme… to see myself, to set the darkness echoing.
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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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My father would tell me if I wasn't writing in meter verse, it wasn't poetry.
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If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield.
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I saw the Village as a place you could escape to, to express yourself. When I first went there, I wrote and performed poetry. Then I drew portraits for a couple of years. It took a while before I thought about picking up a guitar.
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On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton.
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Poetry is the only hope.Even if you do not believe it, you have to do it.
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If Rilke cut himself shaving, he would bleed poetry.
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If I could get that girl [Courtney Love] to publish her poetry, the world would change.
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It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.
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Poetry stands or falls by its music.
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I believe that poetry should communicate.
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The truest and greatest Poetry, (while subtly and necessarily always rhythmic, and distinguishable easily enough) can never again, in the English language, be express'd in arbitrary and rhyming metre, any more than the greatest eloquence, or the truest power and passion.
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The poetry of fashion lies in the creation of illusion.
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My wife is a big fan of George Oppen and I got into him. I could have a career like his. It's not an alpha male situation, George Oppen. It's quiet. It's poetry.He just lived a life of an intellectual poet.
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What happens on the football field matters, not in the way that food matters but as poetry does to some people and alcohol does to others: it engages the personality.
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In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.
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Poetry is itself a thing of God; He made his prophets poets; and the more We feel of poesie do we become Like God in love and power,-under-makers.
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Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings.
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I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy. "Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.
