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poetry should
Why then we should drop into poetry. Charles Dickens
poetry essentials needs
Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is always going to engage and compel us. We're involved in a mystery. Poetry uses words to put us in touch with that mystery. We're always going to need it. Edward Hirsch
poetry use would-be
it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion. Edith Sitwell
poetry silence never-quit
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. Charles Simic
poetry-is touchstones feigning
The truest poetry is the most feigning. William Shakespeare
poetry
Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it. Natasha Trethewey
poetry mind body
Poetry is the connecting link between body and mind. Camille Paglia
poetry wish way
Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by. C. K. Williams
poetry humanity
We can't separate our humanity from our poetry ... Elizabeth Barrett Browning
literature civility
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
literature potatoes poultry
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
literature made should
I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.
literature stealing plagiarism
If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition. Charles Caleb Colton
literature prudence
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
literature fool religious-bigotry
Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
literature speech giants
The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.
literature action conflict
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
literature
We are so very 'umble.
poetry-is touchstones feigning
The truest poetry is the most feigning.
poetry-is happens
Poetry is what happens when nothing else can. Charles Bukowski
poetry-is knows dividends
Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are. Czeslaw Milosz
poetry-is
... poetry is fired by love ... Erica Jong
poetry-is
The poetry is myself. Gwendolyn Brooks
poetry-is translations
Poetry is what is gained in translation. Joseph Brodsky
poetry-is abstraction
Poetry is an abstraction bloodied. Wallace Stevens
poetry-is
All poetry is experimental poetry.