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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's the function of poetry? It's to express general truths, to connect with the reader and make him think: 'Wow, I've experienced that, but you've expressed it so much better.'
- Wizard
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I'm a wizard at poetry.
- Me
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'The Wizard of Poetry' - I had that title since I did 'The Pretty Toney' album. That's when the name first came to me.
- Language
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When I started writing poetry in my senior term of high school - I was sixteen - I felt in touch with a secret language. It gave me a sense of identity. I suddenly discovered I wasn't alone.
- History
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I seem to be always returning to photography in my poetry. I guess you could say that I'm documenting the personal history and relationship I have with photography.
- Dead
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The cliche is dead poetry.
- Loved
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My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do.
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He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
- Beautiful Thing
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Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.
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The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.
- War
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've read a lot of war writing, even World War I writing, the British war poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves's memoir 'Goodbye to All That,' and a civilian memoir, 'Testament of Youth,' by Vera Brittain.
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- Nov 07, 2020