- Language
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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
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess the thing that I'm most proud of is that I kept on writing poetry. I understand that poetry is sort of the source of everything I do. It's the source of my creativity.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In poetry you can express almost inexpressible feelings. You can express the pain of loss, you can express love. People always turn to poetry when someone they love dies, when they fall in love.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
- Head
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
- Bobby Kennedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality, the death of poetry and the death of a dream.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That's where music comes from. And romantic poetry. And bad novels.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the essence of beauty. The essence of pain. It pleases the eye and the ear.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.
- Anthology
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- Nov 07, 2020