“Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.”
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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“Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.”
— Edgar Allan Poe
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“France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.”
— Charles Baudelaire
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“Poetry is, first and last, language – the rest is filler.”
— Mark Strand
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“Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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“There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply.”
— Thom Gunn
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“Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.”
— Adrienne Rich
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“The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.”
— Basil Bunting
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“The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.”
— Raoul Vaneigem
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“The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.”
— John Muir
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“Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.”
— Don Marquis
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