“Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way.”
— Isaac Rosenberg
Author: Isaac Rosenberg
Category: poetry
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If poetry should address itself to the
“If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.”
— Wallace Stevens
Author: Wallace Stevens
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Poetry proceeds from the totality of man,
“Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.”
— Jacques Maritain
Author: Jacques Maritain
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I often imagine that the longer he
“I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.”
— Lafcadio Hearn
Author: Lafcadio Hearn
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I read poetry to save time.
“I read poetry to save time.”
— Marilyn Monroe
Author: Marilyn Monroe
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Journalism wishes to tell what it is
“Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.”
— Archibald MacLeish
Author: Archibald MacLeish
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Poetry is also the physical self of
“Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.”
— Salvatore Quasimodo
Author: Salvatore Quasimodo
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Everything one invents is true, you may
“Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.”
— Gustave Flaubert
Author: Gustave Flaubert
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure
“Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.”
— Samuel Johnson
Author: Samuel Johnson
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I think that there is nothing, not
“I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.”
— Henry David Thoreau
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Category: poetry
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Publishing a volume of verse is like
“Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.”
— Don Marquis
Author: Don Marquis
Category: poetry
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