“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
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“Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.”
— Goldwin Smith
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“It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.”
— John Ruskin
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“The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.”
— Philip Levine
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“None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.”
— Edith Hamilton
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“I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.”
— Edgar Allan Poe
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“I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.”
— Jacques Derrida
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“Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.”
— Stephen Spender
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“I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.”
— Isaac Rosenberg
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“In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.”
— James Broughton
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“Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.”
— Steven Pinker
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