Poetry Is Quotes
509 quotes by 325 authors
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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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Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of…
— Aristotle
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
— Matthew Arnold
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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.
— Joseph Brodsky
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Poetry is life distilled.
— Gwendolyn Brooks
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
— Edmund Burke
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Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.
— James Branch Cabell
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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
— Leonard Cohen
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I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a…
— Leonard Cohen
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Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.
— Lascelles Abercrombie
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The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial…
— A. R. Ammons
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If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or…
— A. R. Ammons
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Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.
— Eugenio Montale
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All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.
— Alfred Douglas
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Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
— Tahar Ben Jelloun
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True poetry is truer than science, because it is synthetic, and seizes at once what the combination of all the sciences is able, at most,…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Poetry is the tunnel at the end of the light.
— J. Patrick Lewis
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Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back.
— Joan Miro
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Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all…
— Victor Hugo
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