Poetry Quotes
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Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn’t know what else to be.
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Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
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The Canadian people are more practical than imaginative. Romantic tales and poetry would meet with less favour in their eyes than a good political article from their newspapers.
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Poetry reminds us of the truths about life and human nature that we knew all along, but forgot somehow because they weren't yet in memorable language.
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I have just discovered the beautiful poetry of Soren Ulrik Thomsen. Danish is not the strongest of languages, but he uses it very well.
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Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics do.
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For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.
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When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.
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I think most good poetry is about suffering; I think that's what underlies the love in these landays pieces - suffering and longing.
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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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That warmth's the very stuff of poesy.
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Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.
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Black Poets should live--not leap From steel bridges, like the white boys do.
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Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
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The essence of poetry is will and passion.
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The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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We are able to feel and learn very quickly through music, through art, through poetry some spiritual things that we would otherwise learn very slowly.
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In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic.
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How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.
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Anyway I read more contemporary poetry than contemporary fiction so my mind goes first to a kind of crass "conceptualism" that repeats vanguard gestures of the past minus the politics and historical context.
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Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.
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Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.
