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Poetry

«Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.»
Author: Dennis Gabor | About: Poetry | Keywords: heartstrings, plucking
«Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things»
Author: Matthew Arnold (Critic, Poet) | About: Poetry | Keywords: effective, impressive, mode, widely
«Poetry is not a profession, it is a destiny»
Author: Mikhail Dudan | About: Poetry | Keywords: destiny, poetry, profession
«Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.»
Author: Paul Engle | About: Poetry | Keywords: blooded, boned, n-th, nerved, nth, ordinary language
«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 emotion know what it means to want to escape from these»
«Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.»
Author: Joseph Brodsky (Poet, Writer) | About: Poetry | Keywords: production, typographical
«Poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of nature of universals, whereas those of history are of singulars»
«Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.»
Author: Plato (Philosopher) | About: History, Poetry, Truth | Keywords: nearer, poetry, vital
«Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to metre.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Critic, Philosopher, Poet) | About: Poetry | Keywords: metre
«Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve music»
Author: Wallace Stevens (Poet) | About: Poetry