“Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.”
— Walter Savage Landor
Author: Walter Savage Landor
Category: poetry
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Today the U.S. is farther from being
“Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers.”
— James Broughton
Author: James Broughton
Category: poetry
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One difference between poetry and lyrics is
“One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.”
— Stephen Sondheim
Author: Stephen Sondheim
Category: poetry
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Poetry and music are very good friends.
“Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream – they go together.”
— Nikki Giovanni
Author: Nikki Giovanni
Category: poetry
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I think there was a revolution in
“I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks.”
— Howard Nemerov
Author: Howard Nemerov
Category: poetry
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He who has religion will speak poetry.
“He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.”
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Author: Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Category: poetry
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For me, poetry is always a search
“For me, poetry is always a search for order.”
— Elizabeth Jennings
Author: Elizabeth Jennings
Category: poetry
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Poetry has done enough when it charms,
“Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.”
— H. L. Mencken
Author: H. L. Mencken
Category: poetry
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Probably induced by the asthma, I started
“Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays.”
— Patrick White
Author: Patrick White
Category: poetry
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I guess the two Manifesto, Communicating Vessels,
“I guess the two Manifesto, Communicating Vessels, Mad Love, and some of his poetry made a significant mark on me but as far as bringing a literary element into the music I see it as a much broader assimilation.”
— Trevor Dunn
Author: Trevor Dunn
Category: poetry
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The poetry of this one is called
“The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?”
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Author: Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Category: poetry
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