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The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English (Great Poetry Quotes)
Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls (Great Poetry Quotes)
Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea (Great Poetry Quotes)
Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry (Great Poetry Quotes)
Poetry is the morning dream of great minds (Great Poetry Quotes)
... passion for survival is the great theme of women’s poetry. (Great Poetry Quotes)
The thing about great poetry is we have no defenses against it (Great Poetry Quotes)
A visual experience is vitalizing. Whereas to write great poetry, to draw continuously on one’s inner life, is not merely exhausting, it is to keep alight a consuming fire. (Great Poetry Quotes)
The more serious poetry of the race has a philosophical structure of thought. It contains beliefs and conceptions in regard to the nature of man and the universe, God and the soul, fate and providence, suffering, evil and destiny. Great poetry always has, like the higher religion, a metaphysical content. It deals with the same August issues, experiences and conceptions as metaphysics or first philosophy (Great Poetry Quotes)
You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It’s one of the great things poetry does. (Great Poetry Quotes)
This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul. (Great Poetry Quotes)
Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends. (Great Poetry Quotes)
Through all permutations and youthful poetry, I came to believe that the film actor was the great literateur of his time. (Great Poetry Quotes)
Tom Sleigh’s poetry is hard-earned and well founded. I great admire the way it refuses to cut emotional corners and yet achieves a sense of lyric absolution. (Great Poetry Quotes)
Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry (Great Poetry Quotes)
I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet. (Great Poetry Quotes)
If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry (Great Poetry Quotes)
As a fairly innocent teenager, growing up in a village in Wales, I just thought, God, I would like to go and hang about Soho and write great poetry and try to avoid drinking myself to death. (Great Poetry Quotes)
Bangladesh is a world of metaphor, of high and low theater, of great poetry and music. You talk to a rice farmer and you find a poet. You get to know a sweeper of the streets and you find a remarkable singer. (Great Poetry Quotes)
[Kafka] transformed the profoundly antipoetic material of a highly bureaucratized society into the great poetry of the novel; he transformed a very ordinary story of a man who cannot obtain a promised job . . . into myth, into epic, into a kind of beauty never before seen. (Great Poetry Quotes)
Think of the great poetry, the music and dance and ritual that spring forth from our aspiring to a life beyond death. Maybe these things are justification enough for our hopes and dreams, although I wouldn’t say that to a dying man. (Great Poetry Quotes)
That’s one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one’s little turn - that you’re just part of the great crop, as it were. (Great Poetry Quotes)
A merely great intellect can produce prose, but not poetry, not one line (Great Poetry Quotes)
The record of poetry in the 20th century isn’t all that great anyway. Most of the poets who weren’t fascists were Stalinists. (Great Poetry Quotes)
History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same. (Great Poetry Quotes)
Lastly, this threefold poetry flows from three great sources - The Bible, Homer, Shakespeare.... The Bible before the Iliad, the Iliad before Shakespeare. (Great Poetry Quotes)
Read. Read. Read. Read. Read great books. Read poetry, history, biography. Read the novels that have stood the test of time. And read closely. (Great Poetry Quotes)
Most great books have been about striving in some sense. In a sense, money is the great topic of the novel. You couldn’t necessarily say that about poetry. (Great Poetry Quotes)
Shakespeare wrote great poetry and preposterous plays. Who really cares, for example, which petty tyrant rules Milan? Or who succeeds to the throne of Denmark? Or why the barons ganged up on Richard II? (Great Poetry Quotes)
There are few greater treasures to be acquired in youth than great poetry-and prose-stored in the memory. At the time one may resent the labor of storing. But they sleep in the memory and awake in later years, illuminated by life and illuminating it (Great Poetry Quotes)
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