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" Quotes and Sayings About poetry

I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written.

I think Fool ourselves Really negate Great deal
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The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.

Art Poetry Passions Virtue
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Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

Poetry Worth Life
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There is more of a nation's politics to be got out of its poetry than out of all its systematic writers on public affairs and constitutions.

Nation's Politics Poetry Writers
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Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned.

Poetry Simple Sensuous Impassioned
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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

Music Departs Dance Poetry
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Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

Poetry Rhyming Dictionary Seen
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Poetry is enthusiasm with wings of fire; it is the angel of high thoughts, that inspires us with the power of sacrifice.

Poetry Thoughts Inspires Power
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Poetry is life distilled.

Poetry Life Distilled
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Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility. It insists on living its own life.

Poetry Hope Achieve Life
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Poetry is a game of loser-take-all.

Poetry Game Loser
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Fiction and poetry are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.

Poetry Medicines Reality Imagination
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The quantity of pleasure being equal, push-pin is as good as poetry.

Quantity Pleasure Good Poetry
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All poetry is misrepresentation.

Poetry Misrepresentation
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If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel

Poetry Achieve Deliver People
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There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

View Poetry Life People
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I always thought that writing poetry was in itself a political act.

Thought Writing Poetry Political
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I feel that poetry is going on all the time inside, an underground stream.

Feel Poetry Time Stream
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There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

Poetry Realize Possess Nothing
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot

Dancing Poetry Foot
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Poetry had always seemed something I could turn to in need - an emergency exit, a lifebuoy, as well as a justification.

Poetry Emergency Justification
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The poetry of the earth is never dead.

Poetry Earth Dead
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If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all

Poetry Naturally Tree Better
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Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject

Poetry Great Soul Amaze
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Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance

Poetry Reader Thoughts
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The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and what it saw in a plain way. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion--all in one.

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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

Writing Criticism Fiction Poetry
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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

Poetry Oral Art Written
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Everything has its poetry.

Everything Poetry
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Poetry Nowhere You
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If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

Food Poetry
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Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.

Poetry Profession Life
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Poetry is meant to be heard.

Poetry Heard
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One thing I do know is that poetry, to be understood, must be clear.

Know Poetry Understood Clear
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People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.

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The strongest part of a religion today is its unconscious poetry

Part Religion Poetry
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

Poetry Beautiful Impressive Mode
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.

Poetry Idea World Illusion
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The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can.

Poetry Power Delighting
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Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination

Experiment Knowledge Poetry Imagination
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