Poetry Cannot Quotes
9 quotes by 7 authors
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There’s plenty that poetry cannot do, but the miracle, of course, is how much it can do, how much it does do.
— Mary Szybist
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Whoever doesn't live in poetry cannot survive here on earth.
— Halldór Laxness
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Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a…
— Samuel Johnson
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Poetry cannot afford to lose its fundamentally self-delighting inventiveness, its joy in being a process of language as well as a representation of things in…
— Seamus Heaney
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Art and poetry cannot do without one another. Yet the two words are far from being synonymous. By Art I mean the creative or producing,…
— Jacques Maritain
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Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for…
— William Hazlitt
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The true men of action in our time those who transform the world are not the politicians and statesmen but the scientists. Unfortunately poetry cannot…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally…
— Samuel Johnson
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In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.
— Seamus Heaney
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