Poetry Quotes

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For me, poetry is always a search for order.

For me, poetry is always a search for order.

Elizabeth Jennings

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So much of my poetry begins with something that I can descri

So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us.

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Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be a

Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.

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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

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The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain i

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

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A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poet

A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures.

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I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard t

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

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The courage of the poets is to keep ajar the door that leads

The courage of the poets is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

Christopher Morley

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For it has come about, by the wise economy of nature, that o

For it has come about, by the wise economy of nature, that our modern spirit can almost dispense with language; the commonest expressions do, since no expressions do; hence the most ordinary conversation is often the most poetic, and the most poetic is precisely that which cannot be written down.

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For it needs little skill in psychology to be sure that a hi

For it needs little skill in psychology to be sure that a highly gifted girl who had tried to use her gift for poetry would have been so thwarted and hindered by other people, so tortured and pulled asunder by her own contrary instincts, that she must have lost her health and sanity to a certainty.

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O love, whose lordly hand Has bridled my desires, And raised

O love, whose lordly hand Has bridled my desires, And raised my hunger and my thirst To dignity and pride, Let not the strong in me and the constant Eat the bread or drink the wine That tempt my weaker self. Let me rather starve, And let my heart parch with thirst, And let me die and perish, Ere I stretch my hand To a cup you did not fill, Or a bowl you did not bless.

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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a ro

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

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Poetry is a mere drug, Sir.

Poetry is a mere drug, Sir.

George Farquhar

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I used to joke that if acting didn't work out, poetry was my

I used to joke that if acting didn't work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback.

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Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason eith

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.

Archibald MacLeish

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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

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No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is writt

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

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No poems can please for long or live that are written by wat

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.

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The man is either mad, or he is making verses.

The man is either mad, or he is making verses.

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Poets wish to profit or to please.

Poets wish to profit or to please.

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