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Eminem on poetry
Author: Eminem“I don’t think I’ve ever read poetry, ever.” -Eminem
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Marilyn Monroe on poetry
Author: Marilyn Monroe“I read poetry to save time.” -Marilyn Monroe
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Aristotle on poetry
Author: Aristotle“Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.” -Aristotle
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Socrates on poetry
Author: Socrates“I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.” -Socrates
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Jim Morrison on poetry
Author: Jim Morrison“If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.” -Jim Morrison
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John F. Kennedy on poetry
Author: John F. Kennedy“When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.” -John F. Kennedy
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Edgar Allan Poe on poetry
Author: Edgar Allan Poe“I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.” -Edgar Allan Poe
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Robert Frost on poetry
Author: Robert Frost“Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.” -Robert Frost
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Albert Einstein on poetry
Author: Albert Einstein“Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.” -Albert Einstein
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Dennis Gabor on poetry
Author: Dennis Gabor“Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.” -Dennis Gabor
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Richard Rosen on poetry
Author: Richard Rosen“The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.” -Richard Rosen
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Charles Simic on poetry
Author: Charles Simic“Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.” -Charles Simic
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John Fowles on poetry
Author: John Fowles“We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.” -John Fowles
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Stephane Mallarme on poetry
Author: Stephane Mallarme“You don’t make a poem with ideas, but with words.” -Stephane Mallarme
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Eli Khamarov on poetry
Author: Eli Khamarov“Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.” -Eli Khamarov
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Jose Bergamin on poetry
Author: Jose Bergamin“The novel is born of disillusionment the poem, of despair.” -Jose Bergamin
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Lionel Trilling on poetry
Author: Lionel Trilling“The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.” -Lionel Trilling
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M. H. Abrams on poetry
Author: M. H. Abrams“If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.” -M. H. Abrams
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Thomas Gray on poetry
Author: Thomas Gray“Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.” -Thomas Gray
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Octavio Paz on poetry
Author: Octavio Paz“To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes to hear it is to see it with our ears.” -Octavio Paz
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Alfred de Musset on poetry
Author: Alfred de Musset“Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.” -Alfred de Musset
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Douglas Dunn on poetry
Author: Douglas Dunn“A poem can have an impact, but you can’t expect an audience to understand all the nuances.” -Douglas Dunn
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Michael Franti on poetry
Author: Michael Franti“Every single soul is a poem.” -Michael Franti
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Paul Engle on poetry
Author: Paul Engle“Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.” -Paul Engle
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David Carradine on poetry
Author: David Carradine“If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.” -David Carradine