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Poetry Is Quotes

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Before you came the world was prose. Now poetry is born.
Nizar Qabbani

'Your entrance sparked the creation of an artistic masterpiece; a metrical composition was born.'
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2.
The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom
Jacques Lacan

3.
Poetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it.
Sonia Sanchez

4.
Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.
Lucille Clifton

5.
Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person’s life.
Eavan Boland

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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

7.
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
Seamus Heaney

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Poetry is either language lit up by life or life lit up by language
Peter Porter

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

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In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.
Abbas Kiarostami

11.
Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.
Diane Wakoski

12.
The true subject of poetry is the loss of the beloved.
Faiz Ahmad Faiz

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

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Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.
Voltaire

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Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
Wilfred Owen

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Poetry is what is gained in translation.
Joseph Brodsky

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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
Ezra Pound

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The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person.
Czeslaw Milosz

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The secret wish of poetry is to stop time.
Charles Simic

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Poetry is a sort of homecoming.
Paul Celan

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Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.
Robert Frost

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Poetry is life distilled.
Gwendolyn Brooks

23.
Poetry is the breath of beauty.
Leigh Hunt

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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

25.
Poetry is an act of peace.
Pablo Neruda

26.
To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.
Edgar Allan Poe

27.
Only in Russia poetry is respected - it gets people killed.
Osip Mandelstam

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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
Audre Lorde

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Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
Denis Diderot

30.
Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation.
Lou Andreas-Salomé

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Poetry is the fiery index to the genius of the age.
Babette Deutsch

32.
Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
Isaac Newton

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Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.
T. S. Eliot

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We learn what poetry is - if we ever learn - by reading it.
T. S. Eliot

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Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
Charles Bukowski

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Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.
Madame de Stael

38.
Prose is walking; poetry is flying
Galway Kinnell

39.
Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

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Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.
Susan Griffin

41.
Poetry is mostly hunches.
John Ashbery

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Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
Brooks Atkinson

43.
Poetry is the disease of the brain.
Alfred de Vigny

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Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game.
Roberto Bolano

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The human creature is alone in his carapace. Poetry is a strong way out.
Stevie Smith

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Poetry is language trying to become bodily experience.
Herbert McCabe

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

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religion is poetry, - poetry is religion.
Marie Corelli

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Poetry is the ultimate democracy.
Brendan Kennelly

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The act of making poetry is an act of hope.
Natasha Trethewey