- Exhilaration
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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
- Inspired
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.
- Millennials
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always thought millennials are going westward, and they probably won't understand vernacular poetry.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality.
- Force
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
In these days of our new materialistic Irish state, poetry will have a harder, less picturesque task. But the loss of Yeats and all that boundless activity, in a country where the mind is feared and avoided, leaves a silence which it is painful to contemplate.
- Constitution
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- Nov 07, 2020
Few realise that English poetry is rather like the British constitution, surrounded by pompous precedents and reverences.
- Constitution
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reform and exchange in English poetry are as slow as in the British constitution itself.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
Irish poetry has lost the ready ear and the comforts of recognition. But we must go on. We must be true to our own minds.
- Become
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020