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A pornographic novelist is one who exploits the sexual instinct as a prostitute does. A legitimate sex novel elucidates it or brings out its poetry, tragedy, or comedy (Poetry Quotes)
Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that’s what a poet is doing: loosening the words (Poetry Quotes)
The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry (Poetry Quotes)
In the great cities, winter glitters with art and feasting. But poetry, the country cousin, sees only the dearth of the fields (Poetry Quotes)
... in a history of spiritual rupture, a social compact built on fantasy and collective secrets, poetry becomes more necessary than ever: it keeps the underground aquifers flowing; it is the liquid voice that can wear through stone (Poetry Quotes)
Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact … the spontaneous conformation of language as it is heard (Poetry Quotes)
I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music (Poetry Quotes)
It exhibits the effort of an essentially prosaic mind to lift itself, by a prolonged muscular strain, into poetry (Poetry Quotes)
Our poetry emulates the recent progress in military strategy: Our army’s strength is the foot soldiers (Poetry Quotes)
How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth make poetry for a mind that had no movements of awe and tenderness, no sense of fellowship which thrills from the near to the distant, and back again from the distant to the near? (Poetry Quotes)
I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry (Poetry Quotes)
There is nothing more poetic than the truth. He who does not see poetry in it will always be a poor versifier outside of it (Poetry Quotes)
Poetry is very crafted. You can’t have too many words. It needs compression. It has to be spare, just the right number of words (Poetry Quotes)
When in public poetry should take off its clothes and wave to the nearest person in sight; it should be seen in the company of thieves and lovers rather than that of journalists and publishers (Poetry Quotes)
Reciting poetry isn’t acting, it’s memory work. Actor’s are deceivers. People who pretend to be something else for a living aren’t right in the head (Poetry Quotes)
We fit the universe through our brains and it comes out in the form of nothing less than poetry. We have a responsibility to awe (Poetry Quotes)
When science drove the gods out of nature, they took refuge in poetry and the porticos of civic buildings (Poetry Quotes)
You run into people who want to write poetry who don’t want to read anything in the tradition. That’s like wanting to be a builder but not finding out what different kinds of wood you use (Poetry Quotes)
The whole history of modern poetry is a continuous commentary on the short text of philosophy: every art should become science, and every science should become art; poetry and philosophy should be united (Poetry Quotes)
There is so much poetry, and yet nothing is more rare than a poetic work. This is what the masses make out of poetical sketches, studies, aphorisms, trends, ruins, and raw material (Poetry Quotes)
In the ancients, one sees the accomplished letter of entire poetry: in the moderns, one has the presentiment of the spirit in becoming (Poetry Quotes)
The life and vigor of poetry consists of the fact that it steps out of itself, tears out a section of religion, then withdraws into itself to assimilate it. The same is true of philosophy (Poetry Quotes)
Poetry and philosophy are, according to how you take them, different spheres, different forms, or factors of religion. Try to really combine both, and you will have nothing but religion (Poetry Quotes)
You wanted to destroy philosophy and poetry in order to make room for religion and morality which you misunderstood: but you wereable to destroy only yourself (Poetry Quotes)
Art, if one employs this term in the broad sense that includes poetry within its realm, is an art of creation laden with ideals, located at the very core of the life of a people, defining the spiritual and moral shape of that life (Poetry Quotes)
I am inclined to believe that some music, like certain poetry, finds its appeal and way to all (Poetry Quotes)
Mastery in poetry consists largely in the instinct for not ruining or smothering or tinkering with moments of vision (Poetry Quotes)
Not always can flowers, pearls, poetry, protestations, nor even home in another heart, content the awful soul that dwells in clay (Poetry Quotes)
Poetry has its own laws speaking for the life of the planet. It is a language that wants to bring back together what the other words have torn apart (Poetry Quotes)
Aviation is poetry... It’s the finest kind of moving around, you know, just as poetry is the finest way of using words (Poetry Quotes)