Poetry Quotes
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How they had dreamed together, he and she... how they had planned, and laughed, and loved. They had lived for a while in the very heart of poetry.
Elizabeth von Arnim -
I began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry.
Ernesto Cardenal
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Memory exercised in a particular way is a natural gift of poetic genius. The poet above all else, is a person who never forgets certain sense impressions which he has experienced and which he can relive again as though with all their original freshness.
Stephen Spender -
In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic.
Will Durant -
I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.
Rita Dove -
Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.
Russell Baker -
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 -
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
Ezra Pound
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Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.
Eugenio Montale -
I am not interested in poetry for poetry's sake.
Ernesto Cardenal -
Sometimes you get lit students that know a lot about the canon but virtually nothing about contemporary poetry and vice versa. I like to mix things up.
Elaine Equi -
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin -
Poetry is the most direct and simple means of expressing oneself in words: the most primitive nations have poetry, but only quitewell developed civilizations can produce good prose. So don't think of poetry as a perverse and unnatural way of distorting ordinary prose statements: prose is a much less natural way of speaking than poetry is. If you listen to small children, and to the amount of chanting and singsong in their speech, you'll see what I mean.
Northrop Frye -
Whatever your life's pursuit -- art, poetry, sculpture, music, whatever your occupation may be -- you can be as spiritual as clergy, always living a life of praise.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.
John Ruskin -
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.
Diane Ackerman -
Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.
Huston Smith -
Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken.
Eugene O'Neill -
The fatal problem with poetry: poems.
Ben Lerner -
Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.
Eugenio Montale
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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.
Cesare Pavese -
Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.
Ansel Adams -
Truth is poetry; it is the grandest poetry.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin -
I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.
Elizabeth Edwards