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.


Salvatore Quasimodo

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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it...
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I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exp...
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A lot of people feel that the realm of poetry and the realm of the lyric is personal feeling and sho...
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Poetry is the arch of expression under which the heart's language is created.
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Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I reall...
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Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.
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Poetry is the clear expression of mixed feelings.
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When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the...
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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.
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The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for...
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When we talk about Poetry, with a capital P, we are apt to think only of the more intense emotions o...
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If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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You just go where poetry is, whether it's in your heart or your mind or in books or in places wh...
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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.
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I'm pretty much all for poetry in public places - poetry on buses, poetry on subways, on billboa...
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I am in the middle of it: chaos and poetry; poetry and love and again, complete chaos. Pain, disorde...
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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.
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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.
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