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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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry can't give us the laws and institutions and representatives, the antidotes we need: only public activism by massive numbers of citizens can do that.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The moment of change is the only poem.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.
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- Nov 07, 2020