Quotes with poetry

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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.''
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Jean Cocteau Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Superstition is the poetry of life.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Sir Walter Scott Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • A. R. Ammons That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • James Fenimore Cooper The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other.
    James Fenimore Cooper
    American writer (1789 - 1851)
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  • Robert Graves The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.
    Robert Graves
    English poet, historical novelist, critic and classicist (1895 - 1985)
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  • Mark Twain The Bible has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Richard Dawkins The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Sylvia Plath The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.
    Sylvia Plath
    American poet (1932 - 1963)
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  • Lewis Thomas The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from science, along with behavior control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
    Lewis Thomas
    American arts (1913 - 1993)
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  • William Somerset Maugham The crown of literature is poetry.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • William Hazlitt The essence of poetry is will and passion.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Jean Giraudoux The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is the example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
    Jean Giraudoux
    French writer (1882 - 1944)
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  • L. Schefer The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry.
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  • Basil Bunting The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.
    Basil Bunting
    British poet (1900 - 1985)
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  • Bruce Dickinson The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Frederick W. Robertson The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.
    Frederick W. Robertson
    English divine (1816 - 1853)
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  • Allen Ginsberg The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.
    Allen Ginsberg
    American poet (1926 - 1997)
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