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Eugenio Montale on poetry
Author: Eugenio Montale“True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.” -Eugenio Montale
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James Broughton on poetry
Author: James Broughton“For me, prose walks, poetry dances.” -James Broughton
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Jacques Derrida on poetry
Author: Jacques Derrida“I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.” -Jacques Derrida
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Walter Pater on poetry
Author: Walter Pater“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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Robert Staughton Lynd on poetry
Author: Robert Staughton Lynd“Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.” -Robert Staughton Lynd
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William Shenstone on poetry
Author: William Shenstone“The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.” -William Shenstone
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Huston Smith on poetry
Author: Huston Smith“Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.” -Huston Smith
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Andrew Motion on poetry
Author: Andrew Motion“More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race.” -Andrew Motion
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Mario Cuomo on poetry
Author: Mario Cuomo“You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.” -Mario Cuomo
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George Farquhar on poetry
Author: George Farquhar“Poetry is a mere drug, Sir.” -George Farquhar
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Samantha Morton on poetry
Author: Samantha Morton“It’s like I understand images and some people understand poetry.” -Samantha Morton
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Peter Abrahams on poetry
Author: Peter Abrahams“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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Colin Quinn on poetry
Author: Colin Quinn“I write all the time – I write poetry, I love to write.” -Colin Quinn
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Joseph Roux on poetry
Author: Joseph Roux“Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.” -Joseph Roux
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Robert Morgan on poetry
Author: Robert Morgan“I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.” -Robert Morgan
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Terry Eagleton on poetry
Author: Terry Eagleton“Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will.” -Terry Eagleton
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Mary Oliver on poetry
Author: Mary Oliver“Poetry isn’t a profession, it’s a way of life. It’s an empty basket you put your life into it and make something out of that.” -Mary Oliver
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George Will on poetry
Author: George Will“There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.” -George Will
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Hu Shih on poetry
Author: Hu Shih“On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people.” -Hu Shih
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Christopher Fry on poetry
Author: Christopher Fry“Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.” -Christopher Fry
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Jewel on poetry
Author: Jewel“I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it’s just obtuse to them. It’s hard to relate to.” -Jewel
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Jenny Eclair on poetry
Author: Jenny Eclair“I was trained as an actress. But I wasn’t a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up.” -Jenny Eclair
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Wislawa Szymborska on poetry
Author: Wislawa Szymborska“Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.” -Wislawa Szymborska
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Jose Marti on poetry
Author: Jose Marti“A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.” -Jose Marti
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Arnold Palmer on poetry
Author: Arnold Palmer“What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.” -Arnold Palmer