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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
- Philosophy
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- Nov 07, 2020
When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to spend a lot of time dreaming and writing poetry.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Hindi film that I recommend is 'Ijaazat.' It is my most favourite film; it is a poetry in itself, and Gulzar Sahab is somebody I am a huge fan of.
- Mortality
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 20th-century poetry, Robert Graves is to love what Philip Larkin is to mortality.
- Conversation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to think that the best poetry is or involves a contest between ordinary conversation and ritual.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like poetry that doesn't give me a sense of ritual, but I don't like poetry that doesn't sound like people talking to each other. I try to do both at once.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
For something to be useful to the spirit is not very valuable to get your covered wagon across the desert. We have adopted that attitude so thoroughly that any American father whose son tells him he wants to write poetry will be embarrassed.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.
- Nov 07, 2020
Every single soul is a poem.
- Commonsense
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to joke that if acting didn't work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020