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Poetry Quotes by Jeremy Limn
- We're the artist of our life, we shape things no one else can hear touch smell or see.
- In the depth to the breath of strife, the heart in two tied with your hands. I can only stand, with you in my life.…
- Like fire poetry is a shadow that makes the heart want more. When you see that all you're is words, the water extinguishes the wounds…
- Poetry is protesting against the nature of suffering and mistreatment. Art is the expression of binding your soul and universe together in the flow of…
- Everything is poetry to me.
- I enjoy writing poetry more than seeing people in real life. To me most people are the same.
- A poem should never be changed out of context. A poem is your heart, and thoughts. The words are your soul and mind.
- I honestly love writing, but I think I'm terrible at it. I just write out my soul and heart.
- A poet writes his words into breath the oxygen moulds a relentless force stronger than death.
- Poetry takes on meaning when it becomes one metaphor.
- I eat language, it's like pumpkin soup for me. Even my tongue concludes I'm obsessed. Words are sex to me, I get horny learning new…
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
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- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams
- Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. — Matthew Arnold
- I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places. — John Ashbery
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- A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. — Wystan Hugh Auden