“Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.”
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.”
— Emily Dickinson
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“Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.”
— Audre Lorde
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“I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents, events, preoccupations; and to spend a great deal of time going to schools trying to demystify poetry.”
— Andrew Motion
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“That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.”
— Walter Pater
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“Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.”
— Eugenio Montale
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“Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.”
— Julie Taymor
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“Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.”
— Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”
— Robert Frost
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“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.”
— Andres Segovia
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