Poetry Is Quotes - Page 36

• Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Vision, Glimpse, World

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• I like poetry when I don't quite understand why I like it. Poetry isn't just a question of wrapping something up and giving it to someone else to unwrap. It just doesn't work like that.

  Mark Haddon

  Giving, Wrapping

  "Finding the vital spark". Interview With Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2005.

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• Poetry is a mug's game.

  T. S. Eliot

  Games, Poetry, Mug

  T.S. Eliot (2016). “The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 6: 1932–1933”, p.22, Faber & Faber

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

  Matthew Arnold

  Beautiful, Impressive

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.689, Delphi Classics

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• A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

  W. H. Auden

  Music, Art, Thinking

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• As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

  T. S. Eliot

  Games, Careers, May

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• Lyric poetry is, of course, musical in origin. I do know that what happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page. When it's a question of typography, why not? Poets have done beautiful things with typography - Apollinaire's 'Calligrammes,' that sort of thing.

  James Fenton

  Beautiful, Lyric Poetry, Musical

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• Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Life, Writing

  Elizabeth S. Sergeant Robert Frost: the Trial by Existence (1960) ch. 18

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• Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Adolescence

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• Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Art, Philosophy, People

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• If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Men, Literature, Heirs

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• Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Friendship, Best Friend, Real

  "Voice of the Maghreb". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 5, 2006.

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• Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.

  Erica Jong

  Baby, Falling In Love, Emotional

  "Love Comes First" by Erica Jong, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 2, 2009.

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• Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Ideas, Feelings, Way

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• If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Food, Writing, Ifs

  Joyce Carol Oates (1989). “(Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities”, Plume

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• Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

  Plutarch

  Art, Poetry, Greek

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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.

  Adrienne Rich

  Relationship, Language And Power, Concentration

  Adrienne Rich (1995). “On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978”, p.137, W. W. Norton & Company

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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.

  Carl Sandburg

  Doors, Closing Up, Poetry

  Atlantic Monthly Mar. 1923 "Poetry Considered"

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• Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Creativity, Drawing

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• Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Distance, Men, Naked

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti (2007). “Poetry as Insurgent Art”, p.38, New Directions Publishing

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• Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

  Charles Bukowski

  Happens

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• Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Heart, Poetry, Graffiti

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• Poetry is not the most important thing in life... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets.

  Dylan Thomas

  Sweet, Lying, Reading

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• But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts to: growing out of yearning, of passion, of all intensities of the soul?

  J. M. Coetzee

  Growing Up, Passion, Soul

  J. M. Coetzee (2002). “Youth”, Harvill Secker

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• He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.

  George Orwell

  Mind, Abyss, Written

  George Orwell (1987). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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