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poetry Quotes and Quotations
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I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry. A. R. Ammons | top
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Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another. W. H. Auden | top
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If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect. John Barton | top
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Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish. William Blake | top
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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 | top
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Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers. Peter Davison | top
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The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all. Peter Davison | top
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If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. Emily Dickinson | top
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As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. T. S. Eliot | top
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Poetry is what gets lost in translation. Robert Frost | top
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My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand. Thom Gunn | top
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I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do. J. Milton Hayes | top
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That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous. Galway Kinnell | top
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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 | top
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Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form. Robert Morgan | top
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My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Wilfred Owen | top
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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. Plato | top
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And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will. Ezra Pound | top
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Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. Walter Scott | top
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Because people are very interested in my poetry, in what I say. Compay Segundo | top
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I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens. Russell Simmons | top
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I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry. Diane Wakoski | top
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Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations. Horace Walpole | top
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I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels. Tobias Wolff | top
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There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. Edward Young | top
