Quotes about Poetry

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after...

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If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

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Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking

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But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of...

#Biography, #Poetry

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and...

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The poetry of the earth is never dead.

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We all write poems; it is simply that the poets are the ones who write...

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When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows...

#Poetry, #Power

The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage...

#Poetry, #Poets, #Politicians

Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were

#Creativity, #Poetry

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain [and] the...

#Grief, #Poetry