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Best Poetry Quotes

Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners. Robert Morgan
Philip Levine quote: "The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of..."
The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry. Philip Levine
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel quote: "Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but..."
Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quote: "Poetry: the best words in the best order."
Poetry: the best words in the best order. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Percy Bysshe Shelley quote: "Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the..."
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poetry, the best of it, is lunar and is concerned with the essential insanities. Journalism is solar (there are numerous newspapers named The Sun, none called The Moon) and is devoted to the inessential. Tom Robbins
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry; and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible. John Drinkwater
I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality. Mark Strand
Samuel Taylor Coleridge quote: "Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in..."
Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Virginia Woolf quote: "Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that..."
Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. Virginia Woolf
I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels. Tobias Wolff
The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their best, wrote at their worst. Clifton Fadiman
The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration. Real life is response to the best within us. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money-making, and not to goodness and kindness, purity and love, poetry, music, flowers, stars, God and eternal hopes, is to deprive one's self of the real joy of living. David O. McKay
They wanted to come in after the pounds", explained Pooh, "so I let them. It's the best way to write poetry, letting things come. A. A. Milne

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