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The thing about great poetry is we have no defenses against it (Poetry Quotes)
Poetry is more a threshold than a path (Poetry Quotes)
I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible (Poetry Quotes)
Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home (Poetry Quotes)
In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance (Poetry Quotes)
Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals, and intelligent and sensitive people from morons (Poetry Quotes)
Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world (Poetry Quotes)
I find that when people haven't found God and do not know the new birth and the Spirit is not on them, yet they have the ancient impulse to worship something. If they're not educated they kill a chicken and put a funny thing on their head and dance around. If they are educated they write poetry (Poetry Quotes)
Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis (Poetry Quotes)
I complain a lot. That's one way of coping. But I'm in a profession where nobody tells you to quit. No board of other partners tells you it's time to get your gold watch, and no physical claim is made on you like an athlete or an actress. So I try to plug along on the theory that I can still do it. I still keep trying to produce prose, and some poetry, in the hope that I can find something to say about being alive, this country, but generally the human condition (Poetry Quotes)
I would especially like to recourt the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time (Poetry Quotes)
Poetry which has decided to do without music, to divorce itself from song, has thrown away much of its reason for being (Poetry Quotes)
Here, where we reach the sphere of mathematics, we are among processes which seem to some the most inhuman of all human activities and the most remote from poetry. Yet it is here that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination (Poetry Quotes)
Thinking in its lower grades is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry (Poetry Quotes)
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish (Poetry Quotes)
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem (Poetry Quotes)
Meditation is the most significant because it opens the door for all other significant things: love, prayer, God, light, music, poetry (Poetry Quotes)
I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing... Not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer (Poetry Quotes)
Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry (Poetry Quotes)
I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world (Poetry Quotes)
Poetry is no more a narcotic than a stimulant; it is a universal bittersweet mixture for all possible household emergencies and its action varies accordingly as it is taken in a wineglass or a tablespoon, inhaled, gargled or rubbed on the chest (Poetry Quotes)
Now I begin to know at last, these nights when I sit down to rhyme, the form and measure of that vast God we call poetry, he who stoops and leaps me through his paper hoops a little higher every time (Poetry Quotes)
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 (Poetry Quotes)
Life is a B movie. It's stupid and it's strange, a directionless story, and the dialogue is lame. But in the he said, she said, sometimes there's some poetry, if you turn your back long enough, and let it happen naturally (Poetry Quotes)
Good religious poetry... is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout (Poetry Quotes)
When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence (Poetry Quotes)
The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance (Poetry Quotes)
Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values (Poetry Quotes)
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without (Poetry Quotes)
In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after - dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse (Poetry Quotes)