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Paul Valery on poetry
Author: Paul Valery“In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.” -Paul Valery
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Vladimir Nabokov on poetry
Author: Vladimir Nabokov“Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.” -Vladimir Nabokov
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Annie Lennox on poetry
Author: Annie Lennox“I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.” -Annie Lennox
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Herbert Spencer on poetry
Author: Herbert Spencer“Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.” -Herbert Spencer
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John Dryden on poetry
Author: John Dryden“Dancing is the poetry of the foot.” -John Dryden
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Ani DiFranco on poetry
Author: Ani DiFranco“Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don’t have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there’s poetry written right on the bathroom wall.” -Ani DiFranco
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Camille Paglia on poetry
Author: Camille Paglia“I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don’t do things like that anymore – tracking words down to their roots.” -Camille Paglia
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John F. Kerry on poetry
Author: John F. Kerry“I’m fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there’s a lot of poetry in it. There’s a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you’d better listen to it pretty carefully, ’cause it’s important.” -John F. Kerry
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David Hockney on poetry
Author: David Hockney“Well you can’t teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.” -David Hockney
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Denis Diderot on poetry
Author: Denis Diderot“Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.” -Denis Diderot
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge on poetry
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge“Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.” -Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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John Cage on poetry
Author: John Cage“I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry.” -John Cage
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Thomas Hardy on poetry
Author: Thomas Hardy“Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.” -Thomas Hardy
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Leonard Cohen on poetry
Author: Leonard Cohen“I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he’s written poetry then let the verdict be that he’s a poet.” -Leonard Cohen
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W. H. Auden on poetry
Author: W. H. Auden“Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.” -W. H. Auden
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Jean de la Bruyere on poetry
Author: Jean de la Bruyere“There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.” -Jean de la Bruyere
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Naguib Mahfouz on poetry
Author: Naguib Mahfouz“I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.” -Naguib Mahfouz
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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on poetry
Author: Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel“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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Charles Baudelaire on poetry
Author: Charles Baudelaire“France is not poetic she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.” -Charles Baudelaire
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Gertrude Stein on poetry
Author: Gertrude Stein“Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.” -Gertrude Stein
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Chinua Achebe on poetry
Author: Chinua Achebe“But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.” -Chinua…
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Audre Lorde on poetry
Author: Audre Lorde“Poetry is not only dream and vision it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.” -Audre Lorde
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John Updike on poetry
Author: John Updike“Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.” -John Updike
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James Joyce on poetry
Author: James Joyce“Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.” -James Joyce
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Richard M. Nixon on poetry
Author: Richard M. Nixon“In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.” -Richard M. Nixon