“I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up.”
— Keith Haring
Author: Keith Haring
Category: poetry
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Poetry is something that happens in universities,
“Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.”
— Mark Strand
Author: Mark Strand
Category: poetry
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In fact a lot of them I
“In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry.”
— Norman MacCaig
Author: Norman MacCaig
Category: poetry
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Poetry must have something in it that
“Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.”
— Denis Diderot
Author: Denis Diderot
Category: poetry
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Poetry is what we turn to in
“Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life – when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.”
— Erica Jong
Author: Erica Jong
Category: poetry
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Before people complain of the obscurity of
“Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.”
— W. H. Auden
Author: W. H. Auden
Category: poetry
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Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew
“Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.”
— Charles Simic
Author: Charles Simic
Category: poetry
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If the object of poetry is, to
“If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.”
— Muhammad Iqbal
Author: Muhammad Iqbal
Category: poetry
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than
“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”
— Aristotle
Author: Aristotle
Category: poetry
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The end of poetry is not to
“The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind… The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.”
— Laura Riding
Author: Laura Riding
Category: poetry
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Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with
“Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.”
— Archibald MacLeish
Author: Archibald MacLeish
Category: poetry
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