“I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world.”
— Kenneth Koch
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Always be a poet, even in prose.
“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
— Charles Baudelaire
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved
“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”
— Edgar Allan Poe
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
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The first question at that time in
“The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.”
— George Oppen
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Eloquence is the poetry of prose.
“Eloquence is the poetry of prose.”
— William C. Bryant
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Every single soul is a poem.
“Every single soul is a poem.”
— Michael Franti
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On July 26, 1916, I announced to
“On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people.”
— Hu Shih
Author: Hu Shih
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A great many people seem to think
“A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be.”
— Mark Strand
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Living here on Earth, we breathe the
“Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.”
— Daisaku Ikeda
Author: Daisaku Ikeda
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Poetry; a criticism of life under the
“Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.”
— Matthew Arnold
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We recognise in the finished art, which
“We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order – poetry; and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible.”
— John Drinkwater
Author: John Drinkwater
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