Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.
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Related A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppos... JOHN DRINKWATER Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it... NATASHA TRETHEWEY The rules or 'laws' of poetry are only tentative devices, an approximate scheme. There is no... LOUIS MACNEICE I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exp... MARK STRAND A lot of people feel that the realm of poetry and the realm of the lyric is personal feeling and sho... CLAUDIA RANKINE Poetry is the arch of expression under which the heart's language is created. SARA STRAIN Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I reall... FRANK IERO Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions. JOSEPH ROUX Poetry is the clear expression of mixed feelings. W. H. AUDEN Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story,... VIKRAM SETH When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the... JOHN F. KENNEDY If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, ... A. R. AMMONS Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable. W. H. AUDEN Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable. W. H. AUDEN There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry. GYORGY LIGETI Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in... WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven! LORD BYRON I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not t... LANGSTON HUGHES I think many people love poetry who don't know they love it. People are sometimes afraid of poet... ELLEN BASS Only poetry inspires poetry. RALPH WALDO EMERSON The poetry was the man, the man was the poetry. BRIAN TREHEARNE The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful. K'NAAN The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for... LAFCADIO HEARN When we talk about Poetry, with a capital P, we are apt to think only of the more intense emotions o... T.S. ELIOT If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. MUHAMMAD IQBAL You just go where poetry is, whether it's in your heart or your mind or in books or in places wh... JOY HARJO What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from th... ERICA JONG Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. VIRGINIA WOOLF Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. MUHAMMAD IQBAL If food is poetry, is not poetry also food? JOYCE CAROL OATES Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their po... WILLIAM BLAKE Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings. W.H. AUDEN Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is... ADRIAN MITCHELL Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. LEONARD COHEN In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium its... SEAMUS HEANEY The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets. PLATO I'm pretty much all for poetry in public places - poetry on buses, poetry on subways, on billboa... BILLY COLLINS I am in the middle of it: chaos and poetry; poetry and love and again, complete chaos. Pain, disorde... ANNA AKHMATOVA Poetry contains few words but tells much. Its beauty is that by being condensed it is rich in meanin... SALIL JHA POETRY, n. A form of expression peculiar to the Land beyond the Magazines. AMBROSE BIERCE Highly important in poetry is Rhythm, but the word means merely 'flow,' so that rhythm belongs to pr... ROBERT HUNTINGTON FLETCHER If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money. ROBERT GRAVES The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and... KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat. P... KAMAND KOJOURI Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to... WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech. SIMONIDES Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech SIMONIDES Poetry is indispensable --if I only knew what for. JEAN COCTEAU When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows th... JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY This is where I belong, burning in these flames. For everything I have done wrong, I know I am to bl... ATARAH L. POLING There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: t... EUGENIO MONTALE There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality RICHARD DAWKINS The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned a... A. R. AMMONS The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too ... EZRA POUND What is poetry which does not save nations or people? CZESLAW MILOSZ People who deliver their work in poetry slams have a lot of vitality, and they are more dramatic tha... PETER DAVISON When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows th... JOHN F. KENNEDY When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the... JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY At school, I was never given a sense that poetry was something flowery or light. It's a complex ... TOBIAS HILL I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetr... CAROL ANN DUFFY There is only beauty -- and it has only one perfect expression -- poetry. All the rest is a lie --ex... STEPHANE MALLARME There is only beauty / and it has only one perfect expression / poetry. All the rest is a lie /excep... STéPHANE MALLARMé Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history... ARISTOTLE Whether you like modern incarnations of what country radio hits are, or you like what I'm doing,... CHRIS STAPLETON Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. AMIT RAY There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poet... DAVID WHYTE Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of expression and messages. VANESSA M CHATTMAN We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of... TOM SCHULMAN Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases WILLIAM SHENSTONE Spoken word poetry is the art of performance poetry. I tell people it involves creating poetry that ... SARAH KAY Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody. JOSHUA LOGAN The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang. G. K. CHESTERTON ...the trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry... BILLY COLLINS Poetry is the whispering of a truth by the shouting of the best possible lies OSCAR SPARROW Painting is silent poetry and poetry spoken, painting. SIMONIDES I think that I have less conviction than ever that poetry matters - that poetry changes or saves any... DAPHNE GOTTLIEB I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read. JACK PRELUTSKY The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's w... ALLEN GINSBERG Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses. VICENTE ALEIXANDRE The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch. E. M. FORSTER For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ. CHRISTOPHER SMART Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of ... MAYA ANGELOU Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and mora... OCTAVIO PAZ Points are not the point. The point is poetry. ALLAN WOLF It's not easy to define poetry. BOB DYLAN Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. PLUTARCH I started writing poetry in high school because I wanted desperately to write, but somehow, writing ... L. E. MODESITT, JR. Poetry is an expression to release your inner perspective on life, love, and nostalgia. A.J. CHILSON We don't read and write poetry because its cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of ... N.H. KLEINBAUM Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking w... ALLEN GINSBERG Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a searc... CARL SANDBURG Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world. WALLACE STEVENS Dating is poetry. Marriage is a novel. There are times, maybe years, that are all exposition. ADA CALHOUN I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards t... DIANE WAKOSKI Poetry is the song of the heart, dance of the mind, and the outer expression of the inner beauty of ... DEBASISH MRIDHA The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice. EARLE BIRNEY Poetry and prayer are very similar. CAROL ANN DUFFY Painting is poetry in pictures as music is poetry in notes. LEAH DANCEL Some people think that English poetry begins with the Anglo-Saxons. I don't, because I can't... JAMES FENTON Mr Shaw is (I suspect) the only man on earth who has never written any poetry. G. K. CHESTERTON
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