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Poetry Quotes by Mark Twain
- What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules &…
- [On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug.
- The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality.
- Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly…
- There are things which some people never attempt during their whole lives, but one of these is not poetry. Poetry attacks all human beings sooner…
- The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.
More Poetry Quotes
- 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