“More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race.”
— Andrew Motion
Author: Andrew Motion
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Religion is no more possible without prayer
“Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.”
— James Martineau
Author: James Martineau
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Poetry is a sort of homecoming.
“Poetry is a sort of homecoming.”
— Paul Celan
Author: Paul Celan
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Poetry is the art of creating imaginary
“Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.”
— Marianne Moore
Author: Marianne Moore
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Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
“Poetry is all nouns and verbs.”
— Marianne Moore
Author: Marianne Moore
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Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.
“Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.”
— Muriel Rukeyser
Author: Muriel Rukeyser
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It should here be added that poetry
“It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.”
— John Drinkwater
Author: John Drinkwater
Category: poetry
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Manifesting that order of poetry where we
“Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.”
— Seamus Heaney
Author: Seamus Heaney
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Cut quarrels out of literature, and you
“Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.”
— Robert Staughton Lynd
Author: Robert Staughton Lynd
Category: poetry
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If you read quickly to get through
“If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.”
— M. H. Abrams
Author: M. H. Abrams
Category: poetry
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We make out of the quarrel with
“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”
— William Butler Yeats
Author: William Butler Yeats
Category: poetry
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