“The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.”
— T. S. Eliot
Author: T. S. Eliot
Category: poetry
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“Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.”
— Macklemore
Author: Macklemore
Category: poetry
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“I think poetry is best read to oneself.”
— Rickie Lee Jones
Author: Rickie Lee Jones
Category: poetry
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“Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.”
— Victor Hugo
Author: Victor Hugo
Category: poetry
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“The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.”
— Robert Penn Warren
Author: Robert Penn Warren
Category: poetry
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“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
— Robert Frost
Author: Robert Frost
Category: poetry
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“The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.”
— Bertrand Russell
Author: Bertrand Russell
Category: poetry
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“When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.”
— Carl Sandburg
Author: Carl Sandburg
Category: poetry
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“Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.”
— Lascelles Abercrombie
Author: Lascelles Abercrombie
Category: poetry
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“There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.”
— Gyorgy Ligeti
Author: Gyorgy Ligeti
Category: poetry
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“And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.”
— Peter Davison
Author: Peter Davison
Category: poetry
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