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Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.
Joseph Roux
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Poetry Quotes
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I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I'm much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons.
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―
Marguerite Young
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I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.
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―
Marguerite Young
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Real
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Talent
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Poetry
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Devotion
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There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
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―
Edward Young
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Poetry
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Mystery
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Logic
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Prose
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Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
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―
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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Poetry
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Bird
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Frontiers
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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
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―
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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Poetry
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Poet
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Autobiography
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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―
William Butler Yeats
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Poetry
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Rhetoric
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There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you longer.
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―
Yanni
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Music
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Poetry
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Voice
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Female
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I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.
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―
Steven Wright
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Reading
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Poetry
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Dictionary
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Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
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―
William Wordsworth
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Powerful
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Poetry
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Emotion
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Feelings
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Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
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―
Virginia Woolf
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Best
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Poetry
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Prose
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Delicious
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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
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Virginia Woolf
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People
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Friends
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Poetry
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Friendship
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Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy.
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George Edward Woodberry
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Poetry
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Fame
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Eulogy
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The growth of art seems to be in cycles, and often its vigorous lifetime is restricted to a century or two. The periods of distinctive drama, Greek, English, Spanish, fall within such a limit; the schools of painting and sculpture likewise; and, in poetry, the Victorian age or the school of Pope will serve as examples.
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George Edward Woodberry
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Age
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Art
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School
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Seems
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I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.
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―
Tobias Wolff
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Best
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Believe
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Different
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I Believe
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I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.
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Amy Winehouse
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Together
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Stuff
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Poetry
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Spectacular
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Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.
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―
Walter Jon Williams
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Want
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Science
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History
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Should
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More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry.
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―
Saul Williams
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People
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Poetry
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Ears
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I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written.
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Saul Williams
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Great
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History
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Written
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Poetry
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I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.
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Saul Williams
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Life
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Poetry
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Making Up
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My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.
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―
C. K. Williams
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Writing
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Father
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Different
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Poetry
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