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“Poetry is to a painting what life is to man.”

Men Life Is Poetry Painting Poetry Is

Book:Georges Braque, 1882-1963: An American Tribute

Source: Georges Braque, 1882-1963: An American Tribute

“Admittedly or not, conscious or unconscious, the poetic state, a transcendent experience of life, is what the public is fundamentally seeking through love, crime, drugs, war, or insurrection.”

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Book:The Theater and Its Double

Source: The Theater and Its Double

“To many writers and thinkers, though not to all, another text is, or can be, the most naked and charged of life-forces ... The concept of allusion or analogue is totally inadequate. To Dante these other texts are the organic context of identity. They are as directly about life as life is about them.”

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Author:George Steiner

“This life is a war we are not yet winning for our daughters' children. Don't do your enemies' work for them. Finish your own.”

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Book:Moon Is Always Female

Source: Moon Is Always Female

“The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.”

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Author:Franz Grillparzer

“Poetry isn't an activity, it's a way life is lived.”

Way Life Life Is Poetry Activity Poetry Is

Author:Vanna Bonta

“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”

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Author:Langston Hughes

“Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.”

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Book:Poems

Source: Poems

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

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Author:Leonard Cohen