“Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.”
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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“You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were the reason I developed neuroses. These people that tortured my life were using my art, my poetry, as fuel for them, to torture other people.”
— Fred Durst
Author: Fred Durst
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“Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.”
— John Updike
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“Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.”
— Juan Ramon Jimenez
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Category: poetry
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“But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.”
— Chinua Achebe
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“Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.”
— Peter Davison
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“The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.”
— Margaret Walker
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“There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.”
— George Will
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“For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.”
— Giorgos Seferis
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“Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.”
— Vanessa Redgrave
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“You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.”
— Joseph Joubert
Author: Joseph Joubert
Category: poetry
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