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Why does it have to be politics? Is there a dynamism to that world and a theoretical capacity to do things that draws many talented people? Absolutely. Are there other ways to be involved and lead an interesting life? Of course.
Eliot Spitzer
Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.
Henry David Thoreau
It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.
Virginia Woolf
You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.
Kahlil Gibran
My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there, I know, there will be people who will listen.
Jack Bowman
A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.
Walter Pater
Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
Wislawa Szymborska
Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear.
Helen Dunmore