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Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moment

Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments

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There is no peace to be takenWith poets who are young,For th

There is no peace to be takenWith poets who are young,For they worry about the wars to be foughtand the songs that must be sung.

Joyce Kilmer, Old Poets Kilmer d

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In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry

In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous.

Albert Einstein

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You can tear a poem apart to see what makes it tick... You'r

You can tear a poem apart to see what makes it tick... You're back with the mystery of having been moved by words. The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps... so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in.

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A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never

A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.

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Professionally he declines and falls, and as a friend he dro

Professionally he declines and falls, and as a friend he drops into poetry.

Charles Dickens

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Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.

Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.

Charles Dickens

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As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that

As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.

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Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of o

Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.

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Faith is the poetry of our dreams and action is the builder

Faith is the poetry of our dreams and action is the builder of our reality.

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I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the p

I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that.

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I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whi

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.

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All the world's a stage,And all the men and women merely pla

All the world's a stage,And all the men and women merely players;They have their exits and their entrances,And one man in his time plays many parts,His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchelAnd shining morning face, creeping like snailUnwillingly to school. And then the lover,Sighing like furnace, with a woeful balladMade to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,Seeking the bubble reputationEven in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,In fair round belly with good capon lined,With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,Full of wise saws and modern instances;And so he plays his part. The sixth age shiftsInto the lean and slippered pantaloon,With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wideFor his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,Turning again toward childish treble, pipesAnd whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,That ends this strange eventful history,Is second childishness and mere oblivion,Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

William Shakespeare

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I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.

I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.

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There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothin

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

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On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America t

On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people.

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Language is the archives of history...Language is fossil poe

Language is the archives of history...Language is fossil poetry.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.

Phyllis McGinley

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Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they

Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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However, he wrote some verses on her, and very pretty they w

However, he wrote some verses on her, and very pretty they were. And so ended his affection, said Elizabeth impatiently. There has been many a one, I fancy, overcome in the same way. I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love! 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.

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