- 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
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
- Balance Sheets
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.
- Blue
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans.
- Words
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they're saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020