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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

All voices are important, and yet it seems that people of color have a lot to say, particularly if you look through the poetry of young people - a lot of questions and a lot of concerns about immigration and security issues, you name it - big questions.

Quotes by Juan Felipe Herrera

Food
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Nov 07, 2020

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

Quotes by Joyce Carol Oates

Mind
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Nov 07, 2020

You just go where poetry is, whether it's in your heart or your mind or in books or in places where there's live poetry or recordings.

Quotes by Joy Harjo

Chose
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Nov 07, 2020

I chose poetry. Actually, poetry chose me.

Quotes by Joy Harjo

Nov 07, 2020

I read mostly poetry.

Quotes by Joshua Sasse

Music
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Nov 07, 2020

Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.

Quotes by Joshua Logan

Exquisite
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Nov 07, 2020

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.

Quotes by Joseph Roux

Nov 07, 2020

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

Quotes by Joseph Roux

Nov 07, 2020

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Quotes by Joseph Roux

Some
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Nov 07, 2020

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Quotes by Joseph Joubert

Some
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Nov 07, 2020

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Quotes by Joseph Joubert

Nov 07, 2020

Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.

Quotes by Joseph Brodsky

Nov 07, 2020

From my teenage years on, I sought out Native elders from many tribal nations and listened to their words. I also started a small press, The Greenfield Review Press, and became very involved with publishing the work of other American Indian authors, especially books of poetry.

Quotes by Joseph Bruchac

Preserved
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Nov 07, 2020

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

Quotes by Jose Ortega y Gasset

Mind
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Nov 07, 2020

When I first heard Bob Dylan, I'll be honest, I didn't like him. But I was shallow of mind and didn't understand the poetry. I just judged him on his singing and his guitar playing.

Quotes by Jose Feliciano

Grain
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Nov 07, 2020

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

Quotes by Jose Marti

Despair
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Nov 07, 2020

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

Quotes by Jose Bergamin

Before
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Nov 07, 2020

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges

Fire
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Nov 07, 2020

I've always loved the poetry in 'Pale Fire.' I think it's wonderful.

Quotes by Jonathan Galassi

You
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Nov 07, 2020

Poetry is really about your mental state or intellectual, and where you are, and you're trying to evoke that, explain it to yourself, whatever, you're trying to dig into it, analyse yourself.

Quotes by Jonathan Galassi

Poetry Quotes

On verse, beauty, and the search to define art.

Other entries take on the harder question of defining beauty itself, noting how many writers have tried and failed to pin it down in universal terms. Explore Love and Life quotes for more.

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