Poetry Quotes

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There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in po

There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.

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Homer has taught all other poets the are of telling lies ski

Homer has taught all other poets the are of telling lies skillfully.

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Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than

Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.

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Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with langua

Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.

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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

Edgar Allan Poe

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The first question at that time in poetry was simply the que

The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.

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I was kind of an outcast in school 'cause I always kept to m

I was kind of an outcast in school 'cause I always kept to myself and was writing poetry and then going on tour with my brother band all the time, so kids didn't know what to make of me.

Christina Perri

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He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the

He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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The foremost watchman on the peak announces his news. It is

The foremost watchman on the peak announces his news. It is the truest word ever spoken, and the phrase will be th fittest, most musical, and the unerring voice of the world for that time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I ha

Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem.

Maxine Hong Kingston

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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

William Butler Yeats

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Why covet a knowledge of new facts? Day and night, house and

Why covet a knowledge of new facts? Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacles. We are far from having exhausted the significance of the few symbols we use. We can come to use them yet with a terrible simplicity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry with

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.

James Martineau

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Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.

Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.

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You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in w

You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.

Carol Ann Duffy

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All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like

All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people.

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Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

William Wordsworth

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Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

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The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

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Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurr

Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can't be related to other forms of historical poetry.

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