- Feelings
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- 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
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always used poetry to explain myself to myself. These things just sat in my psyche and then came out.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don't care about my cinema. In Europe, they don't know my poetry; in Europe, I am a filmmaker. But here, in the United States, I am only a maverick!
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.
- Nov 07, 2020
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
- Talent
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry.
- Religion
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rap and spoken word have reawakened the country to poetry in itself. Texting and Twitter encourage creative uses of casual language, in ways I have celebrated widely. But we've fallen behind on savoring the formal layer of our language.
- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
- Innate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Film has its own innate poetry.
- Apprehend
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- Nov 07, 2020