- Nov 07, 2020
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
- Verbs
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
- Reason
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my greatest joys is poetry. I read it almost every day, and I've even taken a stab at writing some of my own. A poem I wrote for my mother when she was dying really helped me get through that hard time.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
- Nov 07, 2020
How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a 'long writer' and have never wanted to write a novel or even a novella. Poetry, like flash fiction, provides a readily accessible canvas to play with. Whether to express an emotion or share a vignette, these forms are often interchangeable.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.
- Clue
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it was T.S. Eliot who talked about good poetry being felt before it's understood. I believe that. There are some bands where I love their lyrics but I don't have a clue what they're on about.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reason why we do maths is because it's like poetry. It's about patterns, and that really turned me on. It made me feel that maths was in tune with the other things I liked doing.
- Mystery
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rational intelligence is dangerous and leads to ratiocination. The painter is a medium who doesn't realize what he is doing. No translation can express the mystery of sensibility, a word, still unreliable, which is nevertheless the basis of painting or poetry, like a kind of alchemy.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been writing all my life, and playing bass came later on, when I was about 26. What I recognized with poetry and music that I had a different voice - there were things I wanted to express that I could not as an actor or even as a director. It was another avenue of expression that my soul needs.
- Falsehoods
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- Nov 07, 2020