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" Quotes and Sayings About poetry

I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives.

Adjectives Advances Being Felt
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There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

Poetry Prose Logic Mystery
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The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

Civilization Destroyed Generally Gross
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There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.

Afghanistan Even Even Now Form
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Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Dash Deal Dictionary Joy
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Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.

Chances Each Experience He
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Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.

Even More MoreAndMore Poetry
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Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future.

Cult Future Genre Harmony
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Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.

Always Bourgeois Content Manifest
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Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?
About Any Begin Books
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If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.

Rival Bible Fears Hopes
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In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

Capacity Ideas Images Love
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Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

Involves Irrational Mysteries Perceived
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Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

Power Above Universe Relationship
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Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.

Because Ignores Most People
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Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.

Around Audience Commercial Ideal
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Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.

Best Different First More
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At twenty, I implicitly dissociated poetry from politics.

Implicitly Poetry Politics Twenty
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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.

Citizens Activism Public Laws
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I want to gesture toward a poetry of ourselves and others under the conditions of twenty-first-century absolutism, making us dimensional in a time when the human concrete is continually erased by state and religious violence and by disingenuous jargon serving state power.

State Violence Erased Concrete
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How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it

Feels Stage Poetry Sinks
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The work of great poetry is to aid us to become free artists ourselves...The art of reading poetry is an authentic training in the augmentation of consciousness, perhaps the most authentic of healthy modes.

Art Poetry Consciousness
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Personality is everything in art and poetry.
Art Everything Personality Poetry
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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
Everything Geometry May Perfectly
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All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

Exact Geometry Inventions Poetry
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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
Painting Poetry Silent Speaks
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Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

Geometry Poetry Precise Thing
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Biscuits Poetry Synthesis
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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
Asking Dance Echo Poetry
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I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

Myself Poetry Some Understand
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Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.

Colossal Language Never People
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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

Away How Made Phantom
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Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

Poetry Mirror Beautiful Distorted
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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

Poetry Best Happiest Moment
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When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

Power Leads Arrogance Poetry
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Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.

Any Days Food Go
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I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.

Live Poetry Far Anybody
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What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake.

What Poetry Real Dreaming
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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Friends Go Others People
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Poetry ought to be a by-product of living, and you can't have a by-product unless you've got a product first.

Poetry Product Living Got
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Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which occur in nature in many different persons. Together

Painting Poetry Chooses Universal
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

Almost Draw Even Extinguish
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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.

Could Define More Poetry
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May poetry and God's name have mercy on us!

May Poetry God Name
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In poetry, only emotion endures.

Poetry Emotion Endures
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How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?

Any Cannot Colors Grade
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Poetry and art are the breath of life to her.

Poetry Art Breath Life
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We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

Beauty Imagination Logic Mathematics
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.

Atoms Concerned Creating Describing
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Heals Inflicted Poetry Reason
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