“I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.”
— Norman MacCaig
Author: Norman MacCaig
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If I feel physically as if the
“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.”
— Emily Dickinson
Author: Emily Dickinson
Category: poetry
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I do not see how a man
“I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.”
— Paul Dirac
Author: Paul Dirac
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Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.
“Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.”
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
Author: Jose Ortega y Gasset
Category: poetry
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Poetry is the most subtle of the
“Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will.”
— Terry Eagleton
Author: Terry Eagleton
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Poetry is the deification of reality.
“Poetry is the deification of reality.”
— Edith Sitwell
Author: Edith Sitwell
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There is no Frigate like a book
“There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.”
— Emily Dickinson
Author: Emily Dickinson
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However, poetry does not live solely in
“However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.”
— Eugenio Montale
Author: Eugenio Montale
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My mother asked me what I wanted
“My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her.”
— Guy Johnson
Author: Guy Johnson
Category: poetry
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He fertilizes a phrase or a line
“He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to it in a speech.”
— John Colville
Author: John Colville
Category: poetry
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Poetry is the record of the best
“Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Category: poetry
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