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Poetry Quotes by Robert Bringhurst
- When you think intensely and beautifully, something happens. That something is called poetry. If you think that way and speak at the same time, poetry…
- Poetry, I'm often told, is something made of words. I think it really goes the other way around: words are made of poetry.
- How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product,…
- I think of something quite different from a snapshot. I know of a lot of poems, some very fine ones, that are like snapshots, but…
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- 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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- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is… — Margaret Atwood
- Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production. — Joseph Brodsky
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