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Poetry Quotes

If we do not learn by heart, the heart does not feel the rhythms of poetry as echoes or variations of its own insistent beat Picture Quote #1

Fishing books, lit by emotion recollected in tranquility, are like poetry.... We do not think of them as books but as men. They are our companions and not only riverside. Summer and winter they are with us and what a pleasant company they are Picture Quote #1

I was attracted to poetry, which is perhaps the purest of the art forms, where love is the medium of exchange and the nobility of love is considered. It’s a land of higher ideals Picture Quote #1

Poetry is what I’ve done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems Picture Quote #1

I write lyrics everyday as I go. I’m always taking notes in my phone whenever I am inspired by something. Most of my writing starts out as poetry before I put it into songs Picture Quote #1

Poetry is a diary kept by a sea creature who lives on land and wishes he could fly Picture Quote #1

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I think that in the process of writing, all kinds of unexpected things happen that shift the poet away from his plan and that these accidents are really what we mean when we talk about poetry Picture Quote #1

Poetry wants to make things mean more than they mean, says someone, as if we knew how much things meant, and in what unit of measure Picture Quote #1

It is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion Picture Quote #1

Poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you will, of journalism and metaphysics, or of science and religion Picture Quote #1

To write at the same temperature at which I live I should write nothing but poetry Picture Quote #1

Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content Picture Quote #1

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Boston: Their hotels are bad. Their pumpkin pies are delicious. Their poetry is not so good Picture Quote #1

I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day Picture Quote #1

Women have always been poor, not for two hundred years merely, but from the beginning of time.... Women, then, have not had a dog’s chance of writing poetry. That is why I have laid so much stress on money and a room of one’s own Picture Quote #1

Poetry is easier to learn than prose. Once you have learned it you can use it as a light and a laser. It shows up your true situation and it helps you cut through it Picture Quote #1

I cannot understand why poetry is not taught at schools as a way of seeing, a quick, untiring path to essentials Picture Quote #1

Poetry is first of all a way of life and only secondarily a way of writing Picture Quote #1

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In poetry compromise is fatal. In action of any cooperative sort it is inevitable. The thing is to find the balance Picture Quote #1

For poetry is, I believe, always an act of the spirit. The poem teaches us something while we make it. The poem makes you as you make the poem, and your making of the poem requires all your capacities of thought, feeling, analysis, and synthesis Picture Quote #1

Poetry has a way of teaching one what one needs to know... if one is honest Picture Quote #1

When something is too beautiful or too terrible or even too funny for words, then it is time for poetry Picture Quote #1

Wariness had driven away poetry; from hesitating to feel came the moment when you no longer could Picture Quote #1

There is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars Picture Quote #1

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Poetry is the most concentrated form of literature; it is the most emotionalized and powerful way in which thought can be presented Picture Quote #1

Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past us in a polite blur Picture Quote #1

I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark Picture Quote #1

Poetry is the inner life of a culture, its nervous system, its deepest way of imagining the world. A culture that ignores its poets, chokes off its nervous system and becomes mortally ill Picture Quote #1

Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry did not exist at all. If poetry wasn’t good, it wasn’t poetry. It was that simple Picture Quote #1

Workers need poetry more than bread. They need that their life should be a poem. They need some light from eternity. Religion alone can be the source of such poetry Picture Quote #1

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If we do not learn by heart, the heart does not feel the rhythms of poetry as echoes or variations of its own insistent beat (Poetry Quotes) Fishing books, lit by emotion recollected in tranquility, are like poetry.... We do not think of them as books but as men. They are our companions and not only riverside. Summer and winter they are with us and what a pleasant company they are (Poetry Quotes) I was attracted to poetry, which is perhaps the purest of the art forms, where love is the medium of exchange and the nobility of love is considered. It’s a land of higher ideals (Poetry Quotes) Poetry is what I’ve done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems (Poetry Quotes) I write lyrics everyday as I go. I’m always taking notes in my phone whenever I am inspired by something. Most of my writing starts out as poetry before I put it into songs (Poetry Quotes) Poetry is a diary kept by a sea creature who lives on land and wishes he could fly (Poetry Quotes) I think that in the process of writing, all kinds of unexpected things happen that shift the poet away from his plan and that these accidents are really what we mean when we talk about poetry (Poetry Quotes) Poetry wants to make things mean more than they mean, says someone, as if we knew how much things meant, and in what unit of measure (Poetry Quotes) It is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion (Poetry Quotes) Poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you will, of journalism and metaphysics, or of science and religion (Poetry Quotes) To write at the same temperature at which I live I should write nothing but poetry (Poetry Quotes) Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content (Poetry Quotes) Boston: Their hotels are bad. Their pumpkin pies are delicious. Their poetry is not so good (Poetry Quotes) I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day (Poetry Quotes) Women have always been poor, not for two hundred years merely, but from the beginning of time.... Women, then, have not had a dog’s chance of writing poetry. That is why I have laid so much stress on money and a room of one’s own (Poetry Quotes) Poetry is easier to learn than prose. Once you have learned it you can use it as a light and a laser. It shows up your true situation and it helps you cut through it (Poetry Quotes) I cannot understand why poetry is not taught at schools as a way of seeing, a quick, untiring path to essentials (Poetry Quotes) Poetry is first of all a way of life and only secondarily a way of writing (Poetry Quotes) In poetry compromise is fatal. In action of any cooperative sort it is inevitable. The thing is to find the balance (Poetry Quotes) For poetry is, I believe, always an act of the spirit. The poem teaches us something while we make it. The poem makes you as you make the poem, and your making of the poem requires all your capacities of thought, feeling, analysis, and synthesis (Poetry Quotes) Poetry has a way of teaching one what one needs to know... if one is honest (Poetry Quotes) When something is too beautiful or too terrible or even too funny for words, then it is time for poetry (Poetry Quotes) Wariness had driven away poetry; from hesitating to feel came the moment when you no longer could (Poetry Quotes) There is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars (Poetry Quotes) Poetry is the most concentrated form of literature; it is the most emotionalized and powerful way in which thought can be presented (Poetry Quotes) Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past us in a polite blur (Poetry Quotes) I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark (Poetry Quotes) Poetry is the inner life of a culture, its nervous system, its deepest way of imagining the world. A culture that ignores its poets, chokes off its nervous system and becomes mortally ill (Poetry Quotes) Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry did not exist at all. If poetry wasn’t good, it wasn’t poetry. It was that simple (Poetry Quotes) Workers need poetry more than bread. They need that their life should be a poem. They need some light from eternity. Religion alone can be the source of such poetry (Poetry Quotes)

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