850 private quotes tagged poetry

“Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.” — Lascelles Abercrombie

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“The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.” — Johnny Depp

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“We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.” — Maria Montessori

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“Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.” — James Russell Lowell

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“But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.” — Lascelles Abercrombie

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“There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.” — Anna Quindlen

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“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.” — Thomas Mann

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“I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.” — Manuel Puig

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“Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.” — Walter Pater

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“Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.” — Walter Pater

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“It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?” — Robin Wright Penn

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“Poetry a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.” — Matthew Arnold

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“Poetry is composing for the breath.” — Peter Davison

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“Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.” — Virginia Woolf

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“My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her.” — Guy Johnson

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“I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.” — Tahar Ben Jelloun

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“Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.” — John Drinkwater

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“All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet.” — Stevie Smith

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“It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.” — Mary Gordon

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“My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence.” — Michael Sheen

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“I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality, the death of poetry and the death of a dream.” — Emilio Estevez

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“Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.” — Julio Cortazar

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“With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.” — Peter Abrahams

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“The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.” — Gaston Bachelard

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“I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.” — Allen Tate

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