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Poetry Quotes by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- Poets, come out of your closets, Open your windows, open your doors, You have been holed up too long in your closed worlds... Poetry should…
- The state of the world calls out for poetry to save it.
- I certainly was surprised to be named Poet Laureate of this far-out city on the left side of the world, and I gratefully accept, for…
- Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.
- Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.
- See it was like this when we waltz into this place. A couple of papish cats is doing an Aztec two-step And I says Dad…
- We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.
- Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.
- The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it’s the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to…
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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 guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- 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
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- 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
- 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 don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases… — Margaret Atwood
- The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is… — Margaret Atwood
- A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. — Wystan Hugh Auden