Their Poetry Quotes
13 quotes by 12 authors
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Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
— William Blake
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find…
— Socrates
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Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious to be accepted…
— Stephen Spender
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Just as we don't spend a lot of time worrying about how all those poets out there are going to monetize their poetry, the same…
— Seth Godin
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Mysteries do not lose their poetry when solved. Quite the contrary; the solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle and, in any case,…
— Richard Dawkins
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Listeners are kind of ambushed... if a poem just happens to be said when they're listening to the radio. The listener doesn't have time to…
— Billy Collins
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Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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We have great cities to visit: New York and Washington, Paris and London; and further east, and older than any of these, the legendary city…
— Clive Barker
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You have made me ashamed of the wasted years. You have made me acknowledge that no darkness has ever been deep enough to extinguish my…
— Anne Rice
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When we relate to our bodies as having soul, we attend to their beauty, their poetry and their expressiveness. Our very habit of treating the…
— Thomas Moore
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Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor…
— Nelson Mandela
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We got quiet. The garden was combing her hair and putting on earrings. The house was full of dancing creatures, not male and female but…
— Francesca Lia Block
Who Wrote These Their Poetry Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 13 Their Poetry Quotes as follows: