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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
- Love
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My strong suits, coming from poetry, will naturally be description, which I love doing. It comes very easily, and possibly structure, up to a point.
- Light
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At school, I was never given a sense that poetry was something flowery or light. It's a complex and controlled way of using language. Rhythms and the music of it are very important. But the difficulty is that poetry makes some kind of claim of honesty.
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I actually remember celebrating National Poetry Day at school; I remember having to write and read a load.
- Life
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Mostly, when I travel, I want to represent my own work well and let others know how I feel about poetry being an important part of life.
- Myself
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I think of myself as an ambassador of the arts. In my heart of hearts, I know the world would be a more peaceful, tender place if we were more moved by the poetry around us.
- People
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Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can't be related to other forms of historical poetry.
- Language
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But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.
- Language
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So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.
- Galileo
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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
- Emotion
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Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
- Mind
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Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
- Good
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Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.
- Two
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There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply.
- Hands
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