Poetry Quotes

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He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about

He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.

Salvatore Quasimodo

Poetry

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.

Poetry

Poetry is more philosophical and of higher value than histor

Poetry is more philosophical and of higher value than history.

Poetry

The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how sho

The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?

Poetry

The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty.

The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, an

Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.

Poetry

I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fi

I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time - and this includes naps - I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground.

Poetry

Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.

Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.

Poetry

Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I

Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.

Poetry

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.

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In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, noth

In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyone's existence in this world.

Wislawa Szymborska

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Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about

Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.

Poetry

Then others for breath of words respect,Me for my dumb thoug

Then others for breath of words respect,Me for my dumb thoughts, speaking in effect.

William Shakespeare

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Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.

Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love

I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love

Poetry Love

My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to under

My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.

Poetry

Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would s

Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.

Poetry

I'd never really been content with just churning out these s

I'd never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I've always tried to think of poetry as an active ingredient in the language rather than just something that appears between the covers of thin books.

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The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he

The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poetry Language Chaos

She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain

She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood. She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your tomorrows start here.

Poetry Inspirational