Poetry Quotes
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Dylan captured what was on a million minds and turned it into poetry. With 'Blowin' in the Wind' or 'The Times They Are A-Changin',' he set a whole new standard.
Jimmy Iovine
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Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion.
William Wordsworth
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I used to write stories and poetry, but for some reason I have it in my head that if I'm going to write, I have to write a script.
Melanie Lynskey
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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.
Jane Austen
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Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so.
Izaak Walton
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If Rilke cut himself shaving, he would bleed poetry.
Stephen Spender
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The length and shape of the poemetto, like the greater Romantic lyric of English poetry, lends itself to retrospection and commentary.
Susan Stewart
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Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich.
William Bolitho
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Coleridge received the Person from Porlock
And ever after called him a curse,
Then why did he hurry to let him in?
He could have hid in the house.
Stevie Smith
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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.”
Newton Arvin
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But while admiring my neighbour, I don't think I shall ever try to follow in her steps, my talents not being of the energetic and organising variety, but rather of that order which makes their owner almost lamentably prone to take up a volume of poetry and wander out to where the kingcups grow, and, sitting on a willow trunk beside a little stream, forget the very existence of everything but green pastures and still waters, and the glad blowing of the wind across the joyous fields.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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I am a patriot, but I must say that English poetry is the richest in the world.
Joseph Brodsky
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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.
Simon Armitage
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If I could get that girl [Courtney Love] to publish her poetry, the world would change.
Kurt Cobain
Nirvana
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Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Poetry is the only hope.Even if you do not believe it, you have to do it.
Andrei Voznesensky
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As we speak of poetical beauty, so ought we to speak of mathematical beauty and medical beauty. But we do not do so; and that reason is that we know well what is the object of mathematics, and that it consists in proofs, and what is the object of medicine, and that it consists in healing. But we do not know in what grace consists, which is the object of poetry.
Blaise Pascal
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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.
Richie Havens
