“To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.”
— Octavio Paz
Author: Octavio Paz
Category: poetry
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Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who
“Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.”
— Wislawa Szymborska
Author: Wislawa Szymborska
Category: poetry
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Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese
“Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms and the latter longer ones, gut this is only in part true.”
— Lafcadio Hearn
Author: Lafcadio Hearn
Category: poetry
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In Australia, not reading poetry is the
“In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.”
— Phyllis McGinley
Author: Phyllis McGinley
Category: poetry
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Poetry has the virtue of being able
“Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.”
— Christopher Fry
Author: Christopher Fry
Category: poetry
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Poetry is not only a set of
“Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.”
— Tahar Ben Jelloun
Author: Tahar Ben Jelloun
Category: poetry
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I cannot speak for more than an
“I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.”
— Wislawa Szymborska
Author: Wislawa Szymborska
Category: poetry
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It is the hour to be drunken!
“It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.”
— Charles Baudelaire
Author: Charles Baudelaire
Category: poetry
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I grew up in this town, my
“I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.”
— Pablo Neruda
Author: Pablo Neruda
Category: poetry
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Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely
“Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare – and precious as a pearl.”
— Tahar Ben Jelloun
Author: Tahar Ben Jelloun
Category: poetry
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Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts
“Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.”
— Allen Tate
Author: Allen Tate
Category: poetry
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