Poetry Quotes

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The nerds are my favourite sort of boys - any guy with a pas

The nerds are my favourite sort of boys - any guy with a passion - whether it be physics or film or writing or poetry even, I think it's super sweet and it's very attractive for a female.

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I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it b

I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality.

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Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

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When you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly, it wa

When you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly, it was nothing. Now it is growing something as we remember it, what will it be when I remember it as I lie down to die, what it makes in me all my days till then - that is the real meeting. The other is only the beginning of it. You say you have poets in your world. Do they not teach you this?

Time Poetry Friends

I don't write poetry with the intention of making someone sa

I don't write poetry with the intention of making someone sad but rather to illustrate my own feelings and ideas.

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I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I al

I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings.

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Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relations

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

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Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creativ

Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.

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But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contempora

But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.

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Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are

Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.

Salvatore Quasimodo

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The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition whic

The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.

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However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school a

However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.

Eugenio Montale

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The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special intere

The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.

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As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism o

As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.

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Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.

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How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.

How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.

Robert Penn Warren

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Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantl

Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.

Vicente Aleixandre

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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combinat

Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.

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If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles

If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can st

Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.

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