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Tag Name "Poetry" (2672)

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Poetry is the arithmetic of the easiest way and the primrose path, matched up with foam-flanked horses, bloody knuckles, and bones, on the hard ways to the stars.
Carl Sandburg
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Poetry should be vital--either stirring our blood by its divine movements or snatching our breath by its divine perfection. To do both is supreme glory, to do either is enduring fame.
Augustine Birrell
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Poetry is frosted fire.
J. Patrick Lewis
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Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.
Carl Sandburg
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Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
Carl Sandburg
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Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.
Augustus William Hare
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Poetry is the tunnel at the end of the light.
J. Patrick Lewis
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Poetry forces a writer to condense and crystallise his thoughts and often represents a short cut to truths unsuspected by the author himself.
Felix Dennis
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
Carl Sandburg
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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
Carl Sandburg
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Poetry is a search for ways of communication it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen.
Fleur Adcock
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Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.
Carl Sandburg
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Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.
Carl Sandburg
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POETRY: A sliver of the moon lost in the belly of a golden frog.
Carl Sandburg
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Poetry and prayer are very similar.
Carol Ann Duffy
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Poetry is the report of a nuance between two moments, when people say, 'Listen!' and 'Did you see it?' 'Did you hear it? What was it?'
Carl Sandburg
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Poetry is poetry. My process is I try to write the best poem I can, in the best way to communicate whatever it is the poem is trying to communicate, and then I try to figure out the best way to present that poem to a live audience. It's all craft, just different stages of craft.
Bao Phi
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Poetry can save the world. I'm a real believer in its power of healing and transforming. I wish more people read it ... Poetry is probably as close as I would get to religious feeling. I think poetry makes the world stand still.
Carol Muske-Dukes
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Poetry is a plan for a slit in the face of a bronze fountain goat and the path of fresh drinking water.
Carl Sandburg
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
Ezra Pound
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Poetry is a fossil rock-print of a fin and a wing, with an illegible oath between.
Carl Sandburg
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Poetry is a sky dark with a wild-duck migration.
Carl Sandburg
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Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you -- like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist -- or else it is nothing, an empty, formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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