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• A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

  Salman Rushdie

  Courage, Sleep, Names

  The Satanic Verses pt. 2 (1988)

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• United States: the country where liberty is a statue.

  Nicanor Parra

  Country, Usa, Liberty

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• The truth is... everything counts. Everything. Everything we do and everything we say. Everything helps or hurts; everything adds to or takes away from someone else.

  Countee Cullen

  Hurt, Truth, African American

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• The sky dreams of stars, the earth dreams of  love.

  Mihai Eminescu

  Love, Dream, Stars

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• To the question, ‘Is the cinema an art?’ my answer is, ‘what does it matter?’... You can make films or you can cultivate a garden. Both have as much claim to being called an art as a poem by Verlaine or a painting by Delacroix… Art is ‘making.’ The art of poetry is the art of making poetry. The art of love is the art of making love... My father never talked to me about art. He could not bear the word.

  Jean Renoir

  Love, Art, Father

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• Art is the heart's explosion on the world. Music. Dance. Poetry. Art on cars, on walls, on our skins. There is probably no more powerful force for change in this uncertain and crisis-ridden world than young people and their art. It is the consciousness of the world breaking away from the strangle grip of an archaic social order.

  Luis J. Rodriguez

  Change, Music, Dance

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• I have a high art, I hurt with cruelty those who would damage me.

  Archilochus

  Art, Hurt, Warrior

  "Quotations for Martial Artists : Hundreds of Inspirational Quotes to Motivate and Enlighten the Modern Warrior". Book edited by John D. Moore, 2003.

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• Silence is a sounding thing, To one who listens hungrily

  Gwendolyn B. Bennett

  Music, Silence, African American

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• If you deconstruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat remain. That is, with as much, you reconstruct her.

  Odysseas Elytis

  Country, Tree, Olives

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• Let no-one say the past is dead, the past is all about us and within.

  Oodgeroo Noonuccal

  Past, History, Aboriginal

  Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Kath Walker (1992). “The dawn is at hand: selected poems”, Marion Boyars Publishers

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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.

  Mary Oliver

  Way, Empty, Baskets

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• Poetry is the overflowing of the Soul.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Soul, Poetry Is

  Thomas Budd Shaw, Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1853). “Outlines of English Literature”, p.468

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• Do not go gentle into that good night.

  Dylan Thomas

  Tattoo, Good Night, Goodnight

  "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" l. 16 (1952)

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• Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

  James Branch Cabell

  Men, Uprising, Rebellion

  1919 Jurgen.

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• There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

  John Cage

  Poetic, Realizing

  John Cage, Daniel Charles (1981). “For the birds”, Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd

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• A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.

  E. M. Forster

  Together, Literature, Information

  Two Cheers for Democracy "Anonymity: An Enquiry" (1951)

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• I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

  Carl Sandburg

  Literature, Poetry Is, Written

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• Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

  Carl Sandburg

  Literature, Synthesis, Biscuits

  Atlantic Monthly Mar. 1923 "Poetry Considered"

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• If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Motivational, Family

  Prophet (1923) "On Work"

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  Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

  Langston Hughes

  Love, Inspirational, Change

  "Dreams" l. 1 (1929)

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• We loved with a love that was more than love.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Love, Marriage, Valentines Day

  "Annabel Lee" l. 7 (1849)

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• All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Inspirational, Life, Religious

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• Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.

  Steven Seagal

  Warrior, Artist, Greatness

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• The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

  William Shakespeare

  Witty, Atheist, Memorable

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 3, l. [99]

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• Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  "Stray Birds". Book by Rabindranath Tagore, 1916.

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