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Poetry Quotes (page 33)

I think it was Milosz, the Polish poet, who when he lay in a doorway and watched the bullets lifting the cobbles out of the street beside him realised that most poetry is not equipped for life in a world where people actually die. But some is. Ted Hughes
Thornton Wilder quote: "Even speech was for them was a debased form of silence; how..."
Even speech was for them was a debased form of silence; how much more futile is poetry which is a debased form of speech. Thornton Wilder
Gustave Flaubert quote: "She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all..."
She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague “she” of all the poetry books. Gustave Flaubert
I'm an educated man: the prisons I know are subtle ones. And of course poetry and prison have always been neighbors. And yet it's melancholia that's the source of my attraction. Am I in the seventh dream or have I truly heard the cocks crow at the other end of the feria? It might be one thing or it might be another. But cocks crow at dawn, and it's noon now, according to my watch. I wander through the feria and greet my colleagues who are wandering as dreamily as I am. Dreamily dreamily = a... Roberto Bolano
The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it’s the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to be explained, then it’s a failure in communication. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The Vedas say, "All intelligences awake with the morning." Poetry and art, and the fairest and most memorable of the actions of men, date from such an hour. All poets and heroes, like Memnon, are the children of Aurora, and emit their music at sunrise. Henry David Thoreau
The aesthetic event is something as evident, as immediate, as indefinable as love, the taste of fruit, as water. We feel poetry as we feel the closeness of a woman, or as we feel a mountain or a bay. If we feel it immediately, why dilute it further with words, which no doubt will be weaker than our feelings? Jorge Luis Borges
John F. Kennedy quote: "When power corrupts, poetry cleanses."
When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. John F. Kennedy
...when dragged into prominence by half poets, the result is not poetry, nor till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination" --above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them," shall we have it. Marianne Moore
Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations; they're antithetical to the poetry of fear. Stephen King
I have no advice for anybody; except to, you know, be awake enough to see where you are at any given time, and how that is beautiful, and has poetry inside. Even places you hate. Jeff Buckley
Umberto Eco quote: "All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets..."
All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them. Umberto Eco
[H]e was soon to be head clerk; it was time to settle down. So he gave up his flute, exalted sentiments, and poetry; for every bourgeois in the flush of his youth, were it but for a day, a moment, has believed himself capable of immense passions, of lofty enterprises. The most mediocre libertine has dreamed of sultanas; every notary bears within him the debris of a poet. Gustave Flaubert
John Steinbeck quote: "Gonna cuss an' swear an' here the poetry of folks talkin'."
Gonna cuss an' swear an' here the poetry of folks talkin'. John Steinbeck
For grammar it [poetry] might have, but it needs it not; being so easy in itself, and so void of those cumbersome differences of cases, genders, moods, and tenses, which, I think, was a piece of the Tower of Babylon's curse, that a man shoult be put to school to learn his mother-tongue. Philip Sidney

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