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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.
- Poet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Always be a poet, even in prose.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
- Biology
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- Nov 07, 2020
Public school teachers from every corner of America post classroom project requests on DonorsChoose.org. Requests range from pencils for a poetry writing unit to violins for a school recital to microscope slides for a biology class.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry.
- Anticipating
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- Nov 07, 2020
A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel.
- Ashamed
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm ashamed to admit that I very seldom read poetry, even though many of my friends are poets.
- If I Could
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Finally' actually started out as a poem. I always wrote poetry, and pretty soon I figured out that if I could write poems, I could write songs.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I stay up on current events. I read 'The New Yorker' and 'The Economist.' I go to community meetings to see what concerns the people in my neighborhood. I studied literature in college, so I also continue to read poetry, literature, and novels.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to become a writer and felt that poetry was perfected language, so having it in my subconscious mind would make the music of language always available to me.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020