Poetry Quotes
203 Poetry quotes:
"Poetry is what gets lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation."
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"I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering."
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"Writing a poem is discovering"
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"Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things"
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"Out of our quarrels with others we make rhetoric. Out of our quarrels with ourselves we make poetry."
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"Rhetoric . . . To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less subtle and fine, but more simple, sensuous and passionate."
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"Professionally he declines and falls, and as a friend he drops into poetry."
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"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry."
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"We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry."
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"Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility"
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"[Poetry] contains a natural delineation of human passions, human characters, and human incidents."
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"You may send poetry to the rich; to poor men give substantial presents"
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"God is the perfect poet."
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"One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose."
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"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks."
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"Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history."
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"Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance."
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"There is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea"
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"Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock."
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"Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it."
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