“Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.”
— Walter Mosley
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Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling
“Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.”
— Horace Walpole
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The library was open for one hour
“The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.”
— Lynda Barry
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Each memorable verse of a True poet
“Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.”
— Alfred de Musset
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Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you
“Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.”
— Seamus Heaney
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For me, prose walks, poetry dances.
“For me, prose walks, poetry dances.”
— James Broughton
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Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most
“Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.”
— George Oppen
Author: George Oppen
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The first function of poetry is to
“The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think.”
— June Jordan
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How do poems grow? They grow out
“How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.”
— Robert Penn Warren
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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever
“Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Poetry had far better imply things than
“Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly… in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.”
— F. L. Lucas
Author: F. L. Lucas
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