Poetry Quotes

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I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scru

I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.

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Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

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That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensibl

That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.

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However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.

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I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice

I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeare's sonnets.

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Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what th

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

Alphonse de Lamartine

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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nurse

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

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While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pret

While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice.

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The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

Poetry Nature

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poe

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

Time Poetry

I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text

I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

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Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called mel

Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.

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For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers

For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.

Christopher Smart

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The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

William Shenstone

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Johnson, who defines as 'metrical composition', defines as '

Johnson, who defines as 'metrical composition', defines as 'An inventor; an author of fiction; a writer of poems; one who writes in measure'. We can gauge how far we have traveled by comparing this with the Shorter Oxford Dictionary which, after a definition very like Johnson's, feels obligated to add 'A writer in verse (or sometimes in elevated prose) distinguished by imaginative power, insight, sensibility, and faculty of expression'.

Poetry Poet

Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

Natalie Merchant

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There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in fr

There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power.

Eugenio Montale

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The poet is like the prince of cloudsWho haunts the tempest

The poet is like the prince of cloudsWho haunts the tempest and laughs at the archer;Exiled on the ground in the midst of jeers,His giant wings prevent him from walking.

Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs d

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It is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate man

It is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate man and enrich his nature. but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.

Albert Einstein

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The world and the friends that lived in it are shadows: you

The world and the friends that lived in it are shadows: you alone remain real in this drowsing room.

Poetry By The Fire