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“The job of the poet is to render the world-to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.”

People World Life Feelings Jobs Poetry Loss Poet Reports Sentimental Perversion

Author:Mark Van Doren

“He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.”

Writing Poetry Fame Prose Temples Verses Authorship Granite Rubble

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“The poetry is the Earth, charming; The river, flowing from lofty mountains; Nature, a young woman and a heavenly plant with blossoming flowers, slinking in the garden of the mind.”

Mind Earth Young Poetry Flower Mountain Garden Rivers Plant Heavenly Poetry Is Charming Young Women Lofty Blossoming

Author:Manmohan Acharya

“You speak As one who fed on poetry.”

Poetry Speak Feds

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“A picture is a poem without words”

Life Inspirational Writing Art Poetry Photographer

Author:Horace

“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.”

Source: The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse

“Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.”

“Ocean waters..oceans deep..Serious poets never sleep.”

Poetry Water Sleep Serious Poet Ocean Never Sleep Ocean Water

Author:Sally-Ann Roberts

“Poetry...the deepest abyss of infinity.”

Poetry Infinity Abyss

Author:Sally-Ann Roberts

“First they came for the Jews, but I did nothing because I'm not a Jew. Then they came for the socialists, but I did nothing because I'm not a socialist. Then they came for the Catholics, but I did nothing because I'm not a Catholic. Finally, they came for me, but by then there was no one left to help me.”

Firsts Helping Poetry Left Liberty Catholic Jew Libertarian Indifference Help Me Cowardice Libertarianism Socialist Nazi Pastor Theologian Inaction Libertarian Party Arresting

Author:Martin Niemoller

“The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”

“Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent.”

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.”

“Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.”

Pain Poetry Silence Painting Silent

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.”

Inspirational Children Enough Age Poetry Suffering Poet Humorous Parenting Teenager Sarcasm Poetry Is Sarcastic Adolescence Teenage Girl Teenage Years Being Sarcastic

Author:John Ciardi

“In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love.”

Men Love Needs Poetry Loses Horror Solitude Ego Flesh Exterior

Book:Intimate Journals

Source: Intimate Journals

“Poetry is the tunnel at the end of the light.”

Ends Light Poetry Poetry Is Tunnels Light At The End Of The Tunnel End Of The Tunnel

Author:J. Patrick Lewis

“Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they are expanding their minds all the time, enlarging their vocabulary, making discoveries - it is all new to them.”

“Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date . . .”

“But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before there was none, to give rhythmic variations, highs and lows to a landscape that was previously flat.”

Love Giving Art Poetry Order Lows Art Is Harmony Chaos Landscape Flats Attributes Inspirational Love Introducing Variation Highs And Lows Haskell

Book:From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies, Third Edition

Source: From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies, Third Edition

“The field is a halfway house, halfway between the detail of those intimately known places and the ignorance of a landscape view ... The essence of a field is that the cultural accommodates the natural there. The human being makes room for and makes use of those organisms that are not him. In that way the field is a poem to symbiosis, and a human contract with the natural.”

Way Humans Use Earth Poetry House Natural Human Beings Rooms Views Known Fields Ignorance Essence Details Landscape Contracts Organisms Halfway Accommodate Symbiosis

Author:Adam Nicolson

“I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.”

Littles Sometimes Poetry Wish Ignorance Conversation Wish You Cramps I Wish You Would

Author:Anthony Hope

“In the sea there are countless treasures, But if you desire safety, it is on the shore.”

Ifs Wisdom Desire Poetry Sea Safety Treasure Islamic Shore Wise Man Once Said

Author:Saadi

“The poet doesn't invent. He listens.”

Poetry Poet Invention Poetic Great Poetry

Author:Jean Cocteau

“The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.”

Lying Poetry Speak Poet Liars Speak The Truth

Author:Jean Cocteau

“A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.”

Doe Poetry Poet Rose Bother Poetry Is Poetic Nurse Scent Gardener Nursery

Book:A Call to Order, Written Between the Years 1918 and 1926 and Including

Source: A Call to Order, Written Between the Years 1918 and 1926 and Including

“Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.”

Life Trying Children Art Poetry Cutting Poet Poetic Lunatic Knots

Author:Jean Cocteau

“No time for poetry but exactly what is.”

Book:Selected letters, 1940-1956

Source: Selected letters, 1940-1956

“I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want to take on trust. It's a classic ... something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.”

Want Believe Book Poetry Reading Lost Trust Don't Believe Classic Paradise Reading Books Big Book Blind Trust Book Titles

Author:Mark Twain

“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”

Ifs Writing Wells Life Is Poetry Poet Evidence Burning Poetry Is Poetic Ashes Great Poet Great Poetry Best Poetry Poetry By Poets Best Poet

Author:Leonard Cohen

“It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound-that he will never get over it.”

Ifs Thinking Way Writing Moments Lasts Poetry Reading Waiting Taken Reader Strikes Wounds Absurd Immortal Over It Lasting Touching Get Over

Author:Robert Frost

“Let first the onion flourish there, Rose among roots, the maiden-fair, Wine-scented and poetic soul Of the capacious salad bowl.”

Firsts Soul Poetry Fairs Roots Wine Rose Poetic Bowls Salad Onions Maidens

Book:The Complete Poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson: A Child's Garden of Verses, Underwoods, Songs of Travel, Ballads and Other Poems by a prolific Scottish writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped

Source: The Complete Poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson: A Child's Garden of Verses, Underwoods, Songs of Travel, Ballads and Other Poems by a prolific Scottish writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped

“Literature is the question minus the answer.”

Art Poetry Literature Answers Healing Teens Minus World Literature

Author:Roland Barthes

“A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.”

Ifs World Poetry This World Poet Bird Wings Excellence Spread Realms War Of The Worlds Cherish Homeland Celestial

Author:Khalil Gibran

“Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.”

Poetry Behinds Silence Quiet Equal Poetry Is Never Quit Orphan

Book:The Uncertain Certainty: Interviews, Essays, and Notes on Poetry

Source: The Uncertain Certainty: Interviews, Essays, and Notes on Poetry

“It is not the poet's business to save man's soul but to make it worth saving . . . However, few poets have written with a clear theory of art for art's sake, it is by that theory alone that their work has been, or can be, judged; -and rightly so if we remember that art embraces all life and all humanity, and sees in the temporary and fleeting doctrines of conservative or revolutionary only the human grandeur or passion that inspires them.”

“Poetry: the best words in the best order.”

Writing Poetry Order Poet Prose Racist Power Of Words Vocabulary Great Poet Homely Great Poetry Prose Poetry Best Poetry Vocabulary Words Poetry By Poets Prose And Poetry Best Poem Best Poet

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“I believe that if I should die, and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the earth I would hear your footsteps.”

Ifs Love Should Believe Earth Poetry Dies I Believe Walks Sadness Sad Depth Graves Footsteps Forever Love

Author:Benito Perez Galdos

“There will be miracles After the last war is won Science and poetry rule in the new world to come Prophets and angels Gave us the power to see What an amazing future there will be”

World War Lasts Poetry Vision Future Angel Miracle Prophet New World

Author:Billy Joel

“He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.”

Knows Inspiration Poetry Language Knowing Learning Foreign Language Language Learning Learning Language

Book:The Goethe Treasury: Selected Prose and Poetry

Source: The Goethe Treasury: Selected Prose and Poetry

“Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power.”

Poetry Language Poet Ordinary Raised Poetry Is Delicate Reading Poetry Power Of Language Language And Power Poetry By Poets Poetry Reading Tough Skin

Author:Paul Engle

“Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.”

Poetry Nature Keys Poetry Is Hieroglyphics

Author:David Hare

“But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”

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Author:Robin Williams

“We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.”

Writing Humans Poetry Race Society Poet Members Cute Human Race Poetry Is Carpe Diem Carpe Wedding Toast Dead Poets Society Dead Poets Poetry By Poets

Author:Robin Williams

“I think the poet is the last person who is still speaking the truth when no one else dares to. I think the poet is the first person to begin the shaping and visioning of the new forms and the new consciousness when no one else has begun to sense it; I think these are two of the most essential human functions.”

“Abstract art was the quivalent of poetic expression; I didn’t need to use words,but colors and lines. I didn’t need to belong to a language-oriented culture but to an open form of expression.”

Needs Art Use Form Poetry Culture Language Lines Color Painting Expression Abstract Poetic Abstract Art Wording

Author:Etel Adnan

“You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble”

People Trying Helping Poetry Trouble Poetic

Author:Charles Olson

“Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.”

Philosophy Science Poetry Imagination Genius Enthusiasm

Author:Isaac D'Israeli

“He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.”

Writing Wells Poetry Hope Ought Frustration Hereafter

Author:John Milton

“The union of a want and a sentiment.”

Want Love Poetry Unions Sentiments

Author:Honore de Balzac