“Nothing truly convincing – which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill – has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.”
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.”
— W. H. Auden
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“There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry – the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.”
— Lafcadio Hearn
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“Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.”
— Jack Prelutsky
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“Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.”
— Mark Strand
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“Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.”
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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“I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that.”
— James Dickey
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“The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.”
— Gilbert Murray
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“The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself – as a vocation and an elevation almost.”
— Seamus Heaney
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“Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.”
— June Jordan
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“The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.”
— Lewis Thomas
Author: Lewis Thomas
Category: poetry
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