Poetry Is Quotes

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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, whereas those of… — Aristotle
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. — Matthew Arnold
A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production. — Joseph Brodsky
Poetry is life distilled. — Gwendolyn Brooks
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. — Edmund Burke
Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is. — James Branch Cabell
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. — Leonard Cohen
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
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
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
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
Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one. — Eugenio Montale
All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears. — Alfred Douglas
Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words. — Tahar Ben Jelloun
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
Poetry is the tunnel at the end of the light. — J. Patrick Lewis
Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back. — Joan Miro
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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