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Havelock Ellis on poetry
Author: Havelock Ellis“Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.” -Havelock Ellis
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Daniel Radcliffe on poetry
Author: Daniel Radcliffe“As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you’re always ultimately going to be saying somebody else’s words. I don’t think I’d have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I’d love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.” -Daniel Radcliffe
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J. K. Rowling on poetry
Author: J. K. Rowling“Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.” -J. K. Rowling
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Jean Cocteau on poetry
Author: Jean Cocteau“Poetry is indispensable – if I only knew what for.” -Jean Cocteau
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Gustave Flaubert on poetry
Author: Gustave Flaubert“All one’s inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.” -Gustave Flaubert
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Percy Bysshe Shelley on poetry
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley“Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.” -Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Satyajit Ray on poetry
Author: Satyajit Ray“At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.” -Satyajit Ray
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John Donne on poetry
Author: John Donne“I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.” -John Donne
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Sylvia Plath on poetry
Author: Sylvia Plath“The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.” -Sylvia Plath
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Pablo Neruda on poetry
Author: Pablo Neruda“I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.” -Pablo Neruda
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F. Scott Fitzgerald on poetry
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald“For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald
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W. Somerset Maugham on poetry
Author: W. Somerset Maugham“The crown of literature is poetry.” -W. Somerset Maugham
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Walter Scott on poetry
Author: Walter Scott“Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.” -Walter Scott
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Andres Segovia on poetry
Author: Andres Segovia“Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.” -Andres Segovia
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Robert W. Service on poetry
Author: Robert W. Service“Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don’t by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.” -Robert W. Service
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Virginia Woolf on poetry
Author: Virginia Woolf“Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.” -Virginia Woolf
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Joseph Joubert on poetry
Author: Joseph Joubert“You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.” -Joseph Joubert
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John Keats on poetry
Author: John Keats“Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one’s soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.” -John Keats
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E. M. Forster on poetry
Author: E. M. Forster“The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can’t touch.” -E. M. Forster
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William Hazlitt on poetry
Author: William Hazlitt“Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.” -William Hazlitt
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Carl Sandburg on poetry
Author: Carl Sandburg“Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.” -Carl Sandburg
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Nathaniel Hawthorne on poetry
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne“Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.” -Nathaniel Hawthorne
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James Russell Lowell on poetry
Author: James Russell Lowell“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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John Muir on poetry
Author: John Muir“The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.” -John Muir
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Peter Steele on poetry
Author: Peter Steele“It’s bad poetry executed by people that can’t sing. That’s my definition of Rap.” -Peter Steele