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If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.
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Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.
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Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
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It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.
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The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.
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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry, a hundred in dress.
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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
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All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.
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All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
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All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
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All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
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America's liberal arts universities have long been safe zones for leftist thinking, protected ivory towers for the pseudo-elite who earn their livings writing papers nobody reads about gender roles in the poetry of Maya Angelou.
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An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
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Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
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As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.
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Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.
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Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.
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