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«There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.»
«The cliche is dead poetry.»
«The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality»
Author: Muriel Rukeyser
(Writer)
| About:
Fear,
Poetry,
Reality
| Keywords:
cut, cutting off, cut off, indication, indications, poetry, The Fear
«The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical»
Author: William Shenstone
(Writer)
| About:
Poetry,
Prose,
Religion
| Keywords:
pre-eminently, preeminently, quoted, recollected, scripture
«These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't.»
Author: Dylan Thomas
(Playwright, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Poetry
| Keywords:
crudities, crudity, God damn, poems
«The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Imagination,
Poetry,
Reality
| Keywords:
degree, dominates, exact
«There lived a sage in days of yore,And he a handsome pigtail wore;But wondered much and sorrowed moreBecause it hung behind him.»
«The crown of literature is poetry.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Literature,
Poetry
| Keywords:
crown, literature, The Crown
«There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope»
«The great poems, Shakespeare's included, are poisonous to the idea of the pride and dignity of the common man, the life-blood of democracy»
Author: Walt Whitman
(Poet)
| About:
Poetry
| Keywords:
common man, included, poems, poisonous, Pride and, Shakespeare
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