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Maria Montessori on poetry
Author: Maria Montessori“We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.” -Maria Montessori
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Lord Byron on poetry
Author: Lord Byron“A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.” -Lord Byron
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William Butler Yeats on poetry
Author: William Butler Yeats“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.” -William Butler Yeats
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Edmund Burke on poetry
Author: Edmund Burke“Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.” -Edmund Burke
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Vincent Van Gogh on poetry
Author: Vincent Van Gogh“Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.” -Vincent Van Gogh
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Richard Dawkins on poetry
Author: Richard Dawkins“I love romantic poetry.” -Richard Dawkins
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Emily Dickinson on poetry
Author: Emily Dickinson“There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.” -Emily Dickinson
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John Ruskin on poetry
Author: John Ruskin“The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world… to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.” -John Ruskin
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Charlie Chaplin on poetry
Author: Charlie Chaplin“Why should poetry have to make sense?” -Charlie Chaplin
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Niels Bohr on poetry
Author: Niels Bohr“When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.” -Niels Bohr
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William Blake on poetry
Author: William Blake“Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.” -William Blake
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William Wordsworth on poetry
Author: William Wordsworth“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.” -William Wordsworth
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Victor Hugo on poetry
Author: Victor Hugo“Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.” -Victor Hugo
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Jean-Paul Sartre on poetry
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre“Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.” -Jean-Paul Sartre
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Bertrand Russell on poetry
Author: Bertrand Russell“The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.” -Bertrand Russell
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Honore de Balzac on poetry
Author: Honore de Balzac“Love is the poetry of the senses.” -Honore de Balzac
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H. L. Mencken on poetry
Author: H. L. Mencken“Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.” -H. L. Mencken
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on poetry
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe“Superstition is the poetry of life.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Gilbert K. Chesterton on poetry
Author: Gilbert K. Chesterton“All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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T. S. Eliot on poetry
Author: T. S. Eliot“The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.” -T. S. Eliot
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Johnny Depp on poetry
Author: Johnny Depp“The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn’t mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.” -Johnny Depp
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Bob Dylan on poetry
Author: Bob Dylan“It’s not easy to define poetry.” -Bob Dylan
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Robert Louis Stevenson on poetry
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson“Wine is bottled poetry.” -Robert Louis Stevenson
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Henry David Thoreau on poetry
Author: Henry David Thoreau“I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.” -Henry David Thoreau
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Charlie Sheen on poetry
Author: Charlie Sheen“I’m sorry, man, but I’ve got magic. I’ve got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time – and this includes naps – I’m an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground.” -Charlie Sheen