Poetry Quotes

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I don't see how poetry can ever be easy... Real poetry, the

I don't see how poetry can ever be easy... Real poetry, the thick, dense, intense, complicated stuff that lives and endures, requires blood sweat; blood and sweat are essential elements in poetry as well as behind it.

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Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated

Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis.

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Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.

Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painti

Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and

Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was

It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem. Every new relationship is a new word.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Only poetry inspires poetry.

Only poetry inspires poetry.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but

The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.

Frederick William Robertson

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If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong

If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable.

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Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nigh

Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.

Charles Churchill

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We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of

We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.

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The eye is the notebook of the poet.

The eye is the notebook of the poet.

James Russell Lowell

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Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspirati

Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

Wislawa Szymborska

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In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

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Prose talks and poetry sings.

Prose talks and poetry sings.

Franz Grillparzer

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Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speakin

Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking - it's just that I'm one of those people who enjoy doing other stuff as well.

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Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writin

Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays.

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For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experim

For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.

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I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can sti

I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.

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The novel is born of disillusionment the poem, of despair.

The novel is born of disillusionment the poem, of despair.

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