Poetry Quotes

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Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities a

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

Lascelles Abercrombie

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I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through

I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry.

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Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Poetry

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, witho

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to

What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it.

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The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry.

The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry.

Poetry

I'm looking for a guy who makes you want to dance and write

I'm looking for a guy who makes you want to dance and write poetry all day long.

Angela Sarafyan

Poetry

No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full b

No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave.

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Poetry is just so emo,' he said. 'Oh, the pain. The pain. It

Poetry is just so emo,' he said. 'Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.

Poetry Emo Rain

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.

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The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in

The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality

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Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very littl

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

Robert Staughton Lynd

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To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no

To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.

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By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this f

By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.

Lascelles Abercrombie

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It's not easy to define poetry.

It's not easy to define poetry.

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It could be said that a single person has written all the bo

It could be said that a single person has written all the books in the world such central unity is in them that they are undeniably the work of a single all-knowing master.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poetry Inspirational American Classic

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of e

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.

Eugenio Montale

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I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge a

I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been doing to my poetry when I'm not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me.

Poetry

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

Poetry

I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from Britis

I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.

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