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Poetry Quotes by Gregory Orr
- To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life.
- Poetry is the thread that leads us out of the labyrinth of despair and into the light.
- I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions, and traumatic events that come with being alive.
More Poetry Quotes
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — 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
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- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- 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
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- Whether you're studying electrical engineering or poetry, college is not about maximizing income, it's about becoming a better and more informed observer… — John Green