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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
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been doing to my poetry when I'm not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction.
- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is a mere drug, Sir.
- Right
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have an absolute right to translate poetry in any form with any sound. It's all up for grabs.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
In traditional Asian arts, the word and the picture always sit next to each other. I have an aunt, a Chinese brush painter, who told me that when you do a Chinese brush painting, you have to pair the image up with some poetry.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who read it will write it.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe - we are happiest when we are creating.
- Pictures
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'm feeling desperate, I'll go out image-hunting. I'll go to news agents and stand at the rack flicking through magazines or go to second-hand bookshops. And then, bit by bit, like concrete poetry, I start to realise that I am drawn to particular things, and then I start wondering why that is.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
In college, I was a huge fan of 'Les Miserables.' I seem to remember that people who were into French literature preferred Hugo's poetry.
- Understand
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
- Charter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in New York City. In elementary school, I was a charter member of the Scribble Scrabble Club, and in high school, my poems were published in an anthology of student poetry.
- Mirror
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.
- Excursion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.
- Nov 07, 2020
Prose talks and poetry sings.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020