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Poetry Quotes by Bob Dylan
- Everyone of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal, pouring off every page like it was written in my soul from me to…
- Madonna, she still has not showed, we see this empty cage now corrode, where her cape of the stage once had flowed, the fiddler he…
- Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people, they're drinking, thinking that they got it made. Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things,…
- I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.
- A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.
- It's not easy to define poetry.
- You I am sure will forgive me for sincerely remarking that you might curb your magnanimity and be more of an artist, and 'load every…
- Everybody has their own idea of what's a poet. Robert Frost, President Johnson, T.S.Eliot, Rudolf Valentino - they're all poets. I like to think of…
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is… — Margaret Atwood
- It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people… — Wystan Hugh Auden