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“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.”
Roy Croft Quotes |
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“Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.”
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“Writing a poem is discovering”
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“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”
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“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”
Aristotle Quotes |
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“Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.”
Kahlil Gibran Quotes |
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“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen”
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“Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.”
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“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”
Emily Dickinson Quotes |
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“Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.”
Charles Simic Quotes |
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“A poet is someone who is astonished by everything.”
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“A poet is someone who is astonished by everything.”
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“Poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious
attention than history.”
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“Poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious
attention than history.”
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“Poetry is itself a thing of God;
He made his prophets poets;and the more
We feel of poesie do we become
Like God in love and power,--under-makers.”
Philip James Bailey Quotes Source: Festus (Proem, l. 5)
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“'Twas he that ranged the words at random flung,
Pierced the fair pearls and them together strung.”
Bidpai (Pilpay) Quotes Source: Anvari Suhaili, (Eastwick's rendering)
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“You speak
As one who fed on poetry.”
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton Quotes Source: Richelieu (act I, sc. 1)
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“For rhyme the rudder is of verses,
With which, like ships, they steer their courses.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 463)
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“Some force whole regions, in despite
O' geography, to change their site;
Make former times shake hands with latter,
And that which was before come after;
But those that write in rhyme still make
The one verse for the other's sake;
For one for sense, and one for rhyme,
I think's sufficient at one time.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto I, l. 23)
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“For florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme,
Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto I, st. 3)
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“The fatal facility of the octosyllabic verse.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Corsair (preface)
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“Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought.”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes Source: Heroes and Hero Worship (3)
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“For there is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a
biography, the life of a man; also, it may be said, there is no
life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its
sort, rhymed or unrhymed.”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes Source: Sir Walter Scott--London and Westminster Review
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“In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column:
In the pentameter aye falling in melody back.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes Source: The Ovidian Elegiac Metre
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“Prose--words in their best order;--poetry--the best words in
their best order.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes Source: Table Talk
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