Poetry Is Quotes - Page 38

• Man is certainly not creative, but his creativity should not be concerned with God. His creativity should be concerned with making a better world, a better society, better literature, better poetry, better paintings, better sculpture, better human beings.

  Rajneesh

  Creativity, Men, Creative

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• When a man's life becomes poetry, becomes a song, becomes a work of art, a creativity, he has become a sannyasin. Whether he knows it or not, it does not matter. The word 'sannyas' does not matter; what matters is the content.

  Rajneesh

  Song, Art, Creativity

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• Poetry has an indirect way of hinting at things. Poetry is feminine. Prose is masculine. Prose, the very structure of it, is logical; poetry is basically illogical. Prose has to be clear-cut; poetry has to be vague - that's its beauty, its quality. Prose simply says what it says; poetry says many things. Prose is needed in the day-to-day world, in the marketplace. But whenever something of the heart has to be said, prose is always found inadequate - one has to fall back to poetry.

  Rajneesh

  Fall, Heart, Cutting

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• Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory.

  Dennis Gabor

  Appreciate, Magic, Kind

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• Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.

  Vicente Aleixandre

  Poetic, Poet, Succession

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• No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself. The most accurate analysis by the rarest wisdom is yet insufficient, and the poet will instantly prove it false by setting aside its requisitions. It is indeed all that we do not know.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Criticism, Analysis, Adequate

  Henry David Thoreau (1962). “The journal of Henry D. Thoreau”

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• That impulse I think is a form of love. Poetry is something that comes to you, rather than your having to work out its form beforehand.

  Judith Wright

  Love, Art, Thinking

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• Rural poetry is the pleasure ground of those who live in cities.

  Samuel Palmer

  Cities, Pleasure

  Palmer, Samuel (1985). “The parting light: selected writings of Samuel Palmer”, Manchester : Carcanet with MidNAG

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• Poetry is a necessity of life.

  C.D. Wright

  C.D. Wright (2012). “Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil”, p.4, Copper Canyon Press

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• Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Art, Excellence, Chiefs

  EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN (1875). “VICTORIAN POETS”, p.156

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• I have tried to remember throughout that poetry is made by flesh-and-blood human beings. It is a bloody art. It lives on a human scale and thrives when it is passed from hand to hand.

  Edward Hirsch

  Art, Blood, Hands

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• Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us.

  Joseph Joubert

  Found

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science

  William Wordsworth

  Expression, Spirit, Countenance

  'Lyrical Ballads' (2nd ed., 1802) preface

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• Poetry is music written for the human voice.

  Maya Angelou

  Voice, Poetry, Humans

  1989 In' The Power of the Word', Public Broadcasting Service,15 Sep.

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• Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.

  Edward Hirsch

  Reading, Adventure, Creative

  Edward Hirsch (1999). “How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader's head. Educated readers give themselves a good performance. Educated listeners compare performance with text and with other performances. Good poets use the full resources of language.

  Christopher Logue

  Art, Giving, Use

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• When I speak of poetry I am not thinking of it as a genre. Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality. So poetry becomes a philosophy to guide a man throughout his life.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Philosophy, Reality, Men

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• Real poetry is a party, a wild party, a party where anything might happen. A party from which you may never return home.

  Dorothea Lasky

  Real, Party, Home

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• Poetry is that / which arrives at the intellect / by way of the heart.

  R. S. Thomas

  Heart, Way, Intellect

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• Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language

  Peter Porter

  Language, Lit

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• Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.

  Audre Lorde

  Rocks, Names, Giving

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.37, Crossing Press

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• Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us.

  Antonin Artaud

  Beautiful, Reading, May

  Antonin Artaud (1958). “The Theater and Its Double”, p.78, Grove Press

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• Poetry is philosophy's sister, the one that wears makeup.

  Jennifer Grotz

  Philosophy, Makeup

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• Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.

  Jean Cocteau

  Art, Poetry, Indispensable

  "The Necessity of Art". Book by Ernst Fischer, 1959.

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• Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Essence, Needs

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