Quotes about Poetry

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

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A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives...

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech

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Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.

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Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves,...

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Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

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Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

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Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects...

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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own...

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A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like...

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Shall Life renew these bodies? Of a truth All death will he annul, all tears...

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