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Poetry Quotes
On verse, beauty, and the search to define art.
This set opens with the case for teaching children poetry early, since it broadens young minds and passes on virtue almost by inheritance, then weighs how differently prose and poetry can each carry weight. See Art quotes for related themes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
But for me, being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.
- Poets
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Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
- Hidden
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Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
- Happiest
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been surprised to learn how many people love poetry. It's beautiful to see that people want poetry in their lives.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lived a pretty chaotic life. I went to England, and I moved around, and there were a lot of things that I was interested in. I wrote poetry. I took photographs. I was a musician and all sorts of things. Nothing brilliant, but I did all these different things.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff.
- Creative Writing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I took my first creative writing class when I was 24, then went onto to get a graduate degree in poetry. I've sort of never looked back from there.
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- Nov 07, 2020