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In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance (Poetry Quotes)
Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis (Poetry Quotes)
Here, where we reach the sphere of mathematics, we are among processes which seem to some the most inhuman of all human activities and the most remote from poetry. Yet it is here that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination (Poetry Quotes)
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem (Poetry Quotes)
Meditation is the most significant because it opens the door for all other significant things: love, prayer, God, light, music, poetry (Poetry Quotes)
Life is a B movie. It's stupid and it's strange, a directionless story, and the dialogue is lame. But in the he said, she said, sometimes there's some poetry, if you turn your back long enough, and let it happen naturally (Poetry Quotes)
Good religious poetry... is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout (Poetry Quotes)
It is always what is under pressure in us, especially under pressure of concealment - that explodes in poetry (Poetry Quotes)
True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry that is immortal (Poetry Quotes)
Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom (Poetry Quotes)
I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity (Poetry Quotes)
All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry (Poetry Quotes)
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd (Poetry Quotes)
France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic (Poetry Quotes)
The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does (Poetry Quotes)
Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you (Poetry Quotes)
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary (Poetry Quotes)
The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also (Poetry Quotes)
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 (Poetry Quotes)
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo (Poetry Quotes)
Men are what their mothers made them. You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make cashmere as to expect poetry from this engineer or a chemical discovery from that jobber (Poetry Quotes)
Today the U. S. Is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best sellers (Poetry Quotes)
I still think the revolution is to make the world safe for poetry, meandering, for the frail and vulnerable, the rare and obscure, the impractical and local and small (Poetry Quotes)
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden (Poetry Quotes)
Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought (Poetry Quotes)
Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry (Poetry Quotes)
I didn’t want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months (Poetry Quotes)
Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level (Poetry Quotes)
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry (Poetry Quotes)
Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people (Poetry Quotes)