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«Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.»
«Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things»
Author: Matthew Arnold
(Critic, Poet)
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Poetry
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effective, impressive, mode, widely
«Poetry is not a profession, it is a destiny»
«Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.»
«Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these»
Author: Emily Dickinson
(Poet)
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Poetry
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course, emotion, escape, escape from, expression, looser, looses, loosing, of course, personality, poetry, turning, turnings
«Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.»
«Poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of nature of universals, whereas those of history are of singulars»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
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Poetry
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graver, import, singulars, statements, Universals
«Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.»
«Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to metre.»
«Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve music»
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