poetry

Poet quotes

T. S. Eliot quote: “Poetry is not a turning loose of…”

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Poet quotes

William Shenstone quote: “Poetry and consumption are the most flattering…”

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Poet quotes

Vicente Aleixandre quote: “Poetry is a succession of questions which…”

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Poet quotes

Wislawa Szymborska quote: “Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum…”

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Poet quotes

Wallace Stevens quote: “Most people read poetry listening for echoes…”

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Money quotes

Wallace Stevens quote: “Money is a kind of poetry…”

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Love quotes

Wallace Stevens quote: “In poetry, you must love the words…”

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Poet quotes

Wallace Stevens quote: “If poetry should address itself to the…”

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Poet quotes

Wislawa Szymborska quote: “I cannot speak for more than an…”

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Poet quotes

T. S. Eliot quote: “Genuine poetry can communicate before it is…”

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Quotes from writers

Rudyard Kipling quote: “The female of the species is…”

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Poet quotes

Wallace Stevens quote: “Everything is complicated; if that were not…”

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Poet quotes

W. H. Auden quote: “Every American poet feels that the whole…”

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Poet quotes

W. H. Auden quote: “Before people complain of the obscurity of…”

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Poet quotes

T. S. Eliot quote: “As things are, and as fundamentally they…”

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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde quote: “All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling…”

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Poet quotes

W. H. Auden quote: “A verbal art like poetry is reflective;…”

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Ancient wisdom

Socrates quote: “I decided that it was not wisdom…”

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Ancient wisdom

Plato quote: “Poetry is nearer to vital truth than…”

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Life quotes

Ovid quote: “The burden which is well borne becomes…”

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Luck quotes

Ovid quote: “Luck affects everything. Let your hook always…”

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John Muir

John Muir quote: “The gross heathenism of civilization has generally…”

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Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac quote: “Love is the poetry of the senses…”

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Boris Pasternak

Boris Pasternak quote: “I come here to speak poetry. It…”

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George Sand

George Sand quote: “He who draws noble delights from sentiments…”

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John Betjeman

John Betjeman quote: “Too many people in the modern world…”

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E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster quote: “The sort of poetry I seek resides…”

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Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire quote: “The dance can reveal everything mysterious that…”

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James Dickey

James Dickey quote: “She was the Judy Garland of American…”

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Poet quotes

William Collins quote: “Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential…”

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