Poetry Quotes

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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Poetry Truth History

I guess the two Manifesto, Communicating Vessels, Mad Love,

I guess the two Manifesto, Communicating Vessels, Mad Love, and some of his poetry made a significant mark on me but as far as bringing a literary element into the music I see it as a much broader assimilation.

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Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, th

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

Poetry

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flatter

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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The poet is born with the capacity of arranging words in suc

The poet is born with the capacity of arranging words in such a way that something of the quality of the graces and inspirations he has received can make itself felt to other human beings in the white spaces, so to speak, between the lines of his verse. This is a great and precious gift; but if the poet remains content with his gift, if he persists in worshipping the beauty in art and nature without going on to make himself capable, through selflessness, of apprehending Beauty as it is in the divine Ground, then he is only an idolater.

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Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phe

Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools.

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Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great an

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

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Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry an

Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poetry Tea Sentiment

I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader... I guess whe

I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader... I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even in my early 30s, I would write for my wife Janice... mainly for my poet friends and my wife, who was very smart about poetry.

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Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary fie

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.

Theodore Sturgeon

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For the purposes of poetry a convincing impossibility is pre

For the purposes of poetry a convincing impossibility is preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

Poetry Purpose Impossibility

Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in perf

Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.

Adrian Mitchell

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Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.

Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.

Poetry Art Knowledge

I think poetry is best read to oneself.

I think poetry is best read to oneself.

Rickie Lee Jones

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Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their o

Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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It's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls

It's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else's poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because you're too awkward to do it.

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Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know n

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

Herbert Spencer

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I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Muc

I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.

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There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into th

There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.

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There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if w

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.

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