850 private quotes tagged poetry

“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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“I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.” — Michael Graves

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“If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?” — Joyce Carol Oates

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“Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.” — Charles Baudelaire

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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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“Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.” — Robert Morgan

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“If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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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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“Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.” — Goldwin Smith

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“If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.” — Thomas Hardy

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“Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.” — Muriel Rukeyser

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“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

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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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“It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.” — Brooks Atkinson

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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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“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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“Poetry is the deification of reality.” — Edith Sitwell

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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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“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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“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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“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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“Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.” — Horace Walpole

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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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“A lot happens by accident in poetry.” — Howard Nemerov

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“The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.” — Lascelles Abercrombie

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