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Poetry

«Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.»
«Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.»
Author: Leonard Cohen (Novelist, Poet, Singer, Song Writer) | About: Poetry | Keywords: ash, burning, evidence
«Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.»
«Poetry is fact given over to imagery»
Author: Rod McKuen | About: Poetry | Keywords: imagery
«Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers»
Author: Yevgeny Yevtushenko (Poet) | About: Poetry | Keywords: frontiers, ignores
«Poetry is more philosophical and of higher value than history.»
Author: Aristotle (Philosopher, Physician, Scientist) | About: Poetry | Keywords: philosophical
«Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.»
«Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance»
Author: Horace (Poet) | About: Poetry | Keywords: close to, fancy, One Piece, painting
«Poetry is music in words; and music is poetry in sound: both excellent sauce, but those have lived and died poor, who made them their meat»
Author: Thomas Fuller (Clergyman, Writer) | About: Music, Poetry | Keywords: sauce
«Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.»
Author: Thomas Hardy (Novelist, Poet) | About: Poetry | Keywords: come by