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“I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.”

“There's poetry in the world. Poetry doesn't belong just to the poets. You know, you can look at the most premeditated, cold blooded movie and find poetry in it.”

Knows World Looks Poetry Poet Cold Cold Blooded

Author:Francesco Clemente

“I think it was rather an advantage not having any living poets in England or America in whom one took any particular interest. I don't know what it would be like but I think it would be a rather troublesome distraction to have such a lot of dominating presences, as you call them, about. Fortunately we weren't bothered by each other.”

Thinking Knows Would Be America Poetry Interest Particular Poet Advantage England Distraction Bothered Troublesome Dominating

Author:T. S. Eliot

“Our earliest poets were shamans. Today, as in the earliest times, true shamans are poets of consciousness who know the power of song and story to teach and to heal.”

Knows Stories Today Poetry Song Consciousness Teach Poet Heal

Author:Robert Moss

“'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.”

Knows Poetry Poet Sarcastic Poetic

Author:Andre Gide

“Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love.”

Knows Writing Poetry Know How Making Love Love Poetry

Author:Gao Xingjian

“Baby, I have no idea how this will end. Maybe the equator will fall like a hula hoop from the earth's hips and our mouths will freeze mid-kiss on our 80th anniversary or maybe tomorrow my absolute insanity combined with the absolute obstacle course of your communication skills will leave us like a love letter in a landfill. But whatever, however, whenever this ends I want you to know that right now, I love you forever.”

“I'm never gonna wait that extra twenty minutes to text you back and I'm never gonna play hard to get when I know your life has been hard enough already.”

Knows Inspirational Has Beens Hard Enough Play Poetry Waiting Minutes Twenties Extras Play Hard Enough Already

Author:Andrea Gibson

“You panic button collector. You clock of beautiful ticks. You run out the door if you need to. You flock to the front row of your own class. You feather everything until you know you can always, always shake like a leaf on my family tree and know you belong here. You belong here and everything you feel is okay. Everything you feel is okay.”

Ifs Knows Inspirational Needs Feels Running Beautiful Poetry Class Doors Tree Fronts My Family Okay Clock Shakes Panic Buttons Leafs Feathers Flocks Collectors Tick

Author:Andrea Gibson

“In your arms I forget what the yarn knows of sweaters. I forget how to hold myself together. So if I unfold now like a love letter tell me you'll write back soon. Tell me you'll still come untethered.”

Ifs Knows Inspirational Writing Stills Together Poetry Forget Arms Letters Sweaters Love Letter Yarn

Author:Andrea Gibson

“So guess what, if I ever have my own team I am picking everyone first even the worst kid and the kid with the stutter like a skipping record 'cause I know all of us are scratched, even if you can't hear it when we speak.”

Ifs Knows Inspirational Firsts Kids Poetry Speak Causes My Own Records Team Worst What If

Author:Andrea Gibson

“What shall I say about poetry? What shall I say about those clouds, or about the sky? Look; look at them; look at it! And nothing more. Don't you understand anything about poetry? Leave that to the critics and the professors. For neither you, nor I, nor any poet knows what poetry is.”

Knows Looks Poetry Sky Poet Critics Clouds Poetry Is Professors

Author:Federico Garcia Lorca

“Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know.”

Knows Poetry Possibility Outrage

Author:Muriel Rukeyser

“Those who are not very concerned with art want poems or pictures to record for them something they already know - as one might want a picture of a place he loves.”

Knows Want Art Might Poetry Records Concerned

Author:George Oppen

“The primary function of poetry, as of all the arts, is to make us more aware of ourselves and the world around us. I do not know if such increased awareness makes us more moral or more efficient. I hope not. I think it makes us more human, and I am quite certain it makes us more difficult to deceive.”

Ifs Thinking Knows World Humans Art Poetry Certain Difficult Moral Awareness Art Is Function Primaries Efficient Deceiving

Author:W. H. Auden

“Poetry surprises us with what we already know.”

Knows Poetry Literature Surprise

Book:Who Is Ozymandias?: And other Puzzles in Poetry

Source: Who Is Ozymandias?: And other Puzzles in Poetry

“Don't feel guilty if you don't immediately love your stepchildren as you do your own, or as much as you think you should. Everyoneneeds time to adjust to the new family, adults included. There is no such thing as an "instant parent." Actually, no concrete object lies outside of the poetic sphere as long as the poet knows how to use the object properly.”

“All think what other people think; All know the man their neighbor knows. Lord, what would they say Did their Catullus walk that way?”

People Thinking Knows Men Way Poetry Walks Lord He Man Poet Neighbor Gossip Academia

Author:William Butler Yeats

“You know that the nucleus of a time is not The poet but the poem, the growth of the mind Of the world, the heroic effort to live expressed As victory. The poet does not speak in ruins Nor stand there making orotund consolations. He shares the confusions of intelligence.”

Knows World Mind Doe Poetry Speak Growth Effort Share Poet Victory Confusion Ruins Heroic Consolation Nucleus

Book:The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

“As we speak of poetical beauty, so ought we to speak of mathematical beauty and medical beauty. But we do not do so; and that reason is that we know well what is the object of mathematics, and that it consists in proofs, and what is the object of medicine, and that it consists in healing. But we do not know in what grace consists, which is the object of poetry.”

Knows Wells Reason Poetry Speak Healing Beauty Grace Objects Poet Ought Mathematics Medicine Proof Medical Mathematical Poetry Is Mathematical Beauty

Book:Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works

Source: Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works

“Summary riposte To the dreary wail There's no knowing what Love is all about. Poets know a lot.”

Knows Love Poetry Love Is Knowing Poet Dreary Summary

Book:The poetry of Robert Frost

Source: The poetry of Robert Frost

“I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition. In science you want to say something that nobody knew before, in words which everyone can understand. In poetry you are bound to say ... something that everyone knows already in words that nobody can understand. Commenting to him about the poetry J. Robert Oppenheimer wrote.”

Knows Men Want Writing Poetry Bounds Physics Opposition Frontiers

Author:Paul Dirac

“War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.”

People Knows War Poetry Killing Profit Anti War Antiwar Massacres Killing Each Other

Author:Paul Valery

“I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.”

Knows Poetry Hate Fighting Fate Clouds I Hate Love Above The Clouds

Author:William Butler Yeats

“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?”

Ifs Knows Way Feels Book Whole Body Poetry Taken Fire Cold Warm

Author:Emily Dickinson

“Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.”

Ifs Thinking Knows World Ends Enough Desire Poetry Hate Fire Destruction Favors Ice Great Poetry Fire And Ice Greatest Poetry

Author:Robert Frost

“Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth.”

Knows Love Heart Poetry Fall Watches Mouths Intellect Upside Down Things Upside Down

Author:Anne Sexton

“It is a great feeling to know that from a window I can go to books to cans of beer to past loves. And from these gather enough dream to sneak out a back door.”

Knows I Can Book Enough Feelings Dream Past Poetry Doors Window Beer Sneak Back Doors Great Feelings Beatnik Past Love

Book:Gasoline & Vestal Lady on Brattle: Pocket Poets Number 8

Source: Gasoline & Vestal Lady on Brattle: Pocket Poets Number 8

“Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.”

Knows Want Inspirational Needs Poetry Certain Dies Prayer Secret Wonderful Solitude Safe Nervous Broken Heart Hiding Hiding Place Before I Die

Book:Take Me With You

Source: Take Me With You

“There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.”

Knows Pain Poetry Pleasure Poet Poetic

Author:William Cowper

“If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.”

Ifs Knows Writing Poetry Average

Author:Derek Walcott

“As a guiding principle I believe that every poem must be its own sole freshly created universe, and therefore have no belief n 'tradition' or a common myth-kitty or casual allusions in poems to other poems or poets, which last I find unpleasantly like the talk of literary understrappers letting you see they know the right people.”

People Knows Believe Lasts Poetry Universe Belief I Believe Common Principles Poet Tradition Myth Sole Casual Allusion Kitties Guiding Principles

Author:Philip Larkin

“Philosophy is antipoetic. Philosophize about mankind and you brush aside individual uniqueness, which a poet cannot do without self-damage. Unless, for a start, he has a strong personal rhythm to vary his metrics, he is nothing. Poets mistrust philosophy. They know that once the heads are counted, each owner of a head loses his personal identify and becomes a number in some government scheme: if not as a slave or serf, at least as a party to the device of majority voting, which smothers personal views.”

Source: Some speculations on literature, history, and religion

“Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.”

Knows Writing Remember Poetry Pleasure Poetry Is Making Love Writing Poetry

Book:This Business of Living

Source: This Business of Living

“Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.”

Knows Science Poetry Knowledge Accounts Poetry Is

Author:Philibert Joseph Roux

“I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them, travel abroad, experience the horrors of sordid passion, and - if he is lucky enough - know the love of an honest woman.”

Ifs Knows Should Believe Enough Poetry Passion I Believe Break Honest Poet Masters Horror Lucky Grammar Travel Abroad Honest Woman

Author:Robert Graves

“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

“The small man builds cages for everyone he knows While the sage, who has to duck his head when the moon is low, Keeps dropping keys all night long For the beautiful rowdy prisoners.”

Knows Men Long Wisdom Beautiful Spiritual Poetry Night Keys Moon Lows Prisoner Ducks Sage Cages All Night Dropping Small Man Rowdy

Author:Hafez

“"I know perfectly well that at this moment the whole universe is listening to us," Jean Giraudoux wrote in The Madwoman of Chaillot, "and that every word we say echoes to the remotest star."That poetic paranoia is a perfect description of what the Sun, as a gravitational lens, could do for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.”

Knows Wells Whole Moments Poetry Universe Stars Perfect Sun Listening Description Poetic Echoes Lenses Paranoia Extraterrestrial

Author:Frank Drake

“No matter how much we learn, there is always more knowledge to be gained. In this connection I am reminded of a short poem that has been in my mind over the years. It reads as follow: I used to think I knew I knew. But now I must confess. The more I know I know I know I know I know the less.”

Thinking Knows Years Mind Has Beens Matter Used Poetry Learning Connections More Knowledge

Author:A. Ray Olpin

“Starry Starry night Paint your palette blue and gray Look out on a summer's day With eyes that know the darkness in my soul Shadows on the hills Sketch the trees and the daffodils Catch the breeze and the winter chills In colors on the snowy linen land.”

Knows Looks Soul Eye Poetry Night Song Darkness Tree Land Color Summer Shadow Blue Paint Winter My Soul Hills Gray Breeze Chill Popular Song Palette Snowy Daffodil Linen Starry Night

Author:Don McLean

“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.”

Ifs Knows Book Whole Body Poetry Fire Cold Warm Emily Reading Poetry

Author:Emily Dickinson

“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.”

Ifs Knows Feels Writing Poetry Taken Poet Poetry Is Emily Great Poet Great Poetry Poetry By Famous Poets Poetry By Poets Greatest Poetry

Author:Emily Dickinson

“For the drover's life has pleasures that the townsfolk never know.”

Knows Life Poetry Pleasure Travel Cowboy

Book:Banjo Paterson Complete Poems

Source: Banjo Paterson Complete Poems

“For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.”

Knows Writing Art Ends Remember Poetry Surprise Delight Discovering Initials

Author:Robert Frost

“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.”

Knows Life Inspirational Firsts Ends Wisdom Motivational Funny Poetry Time Inspiring Awareness Military Adventure Travel First Time Experience Silly Cease Self Discovery Enlightened Live By Exploration Life Experience Time Travel Discovering Hiking Traveled Exploring Trekking Arriving Spiritual Journey Inspiring Travel Computing Travel Adventure Places To Live Adventure And Travel Road Trip Life Is An Adventure Quartets Mystery Of Life Photography And Travel Roads Traveled Life Adventure Adventure And Life Backpacking Stages Of Life Travel Journey Continuous Learning Journey Of Self Discovery Ocean Exploration Place And Time Wonder Of Life Spirit Of Life Discovery In Life Wisdom And Experience Waste Land Journeys And Paths Live Love Life Happy Spirit Lost Yourself Outdoor Adventure Treasure Chests Journey And Destination Exploration And Adventure Exploring The World Spiritual Change Life Ending Reaching The End Spirit Of Place

Author:T. S. Eliot

“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.”

Knows Want Mean Art Poetry Courses Emotion Poet Expression Personality Poetry Is Literary Criticism Poetry By Famous Poets Poetry By Poets Looseness Individual Talent What Is Poetry Expressing Emotions

Author:T. S. Eliot

“If I could take your troubles I would toss them into the sea, But all these things I'm finding Are impossible for me. I cannot build a mountain Or catch a rainbow fair, But let me be what I know best, A friend that is always there.”

Ifs Knows Poetry Impossible Trouble Sea Mountain Findings Fairs Let Me If I Could Rainbow Toss

Author:Khalil Gibran

“'Who's been repeating all that hard stuff to you?' 'I read it in a book,' said Alice. 'But I had some poetry repeated to me, much easier than that, by - Tweedledee, I think it was.' 'As to poetry, you know,' said Humpty Dumpty, stretching out one of his great hands, 'I can repeat poetry as well as other folk, if it comes to that - ' 'Oh, it needn't come to that!' Alice hastily said, hoping to keep him from beginning.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Wells Said I Can Book Hard Hands Poetry Stuff Easier Folks Repeats Stretching Humpty Dumpty

Author:Lewis Carroll

“Sir, what is poetry? Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is; but it is not easy to tell what it is.”

Knows Light Poetry Easy Easier What Is Poetry

Author:Samuel Johnson

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