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Poetry

«Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.»
Author: Jacques Maritain | About: Poetry | Keywords: Blood and, proceeds, totality
«Poetry lies its way to the truth.»
Author: John Ciardi | About: Poetry | Keywords: poetry
«Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking»
Author: John Wain | About: Poetry | Keywords: dancing, poetry, prose, walking
«Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.»
Author: Thomas Gray (Poet) | About: Poetry | Keywords: breathe, burn, poetry
«Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle»
«Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.»
«Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.»
Author: Robert Frost | About: Poetry | Keywords: emotion
«Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.»
«Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.»
Author: Don Marquis (Columnist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Writer) | About: Poetry | Keywords: Milton
«Poetry is what gets lost in translation.»
Author: Robert Frost | About: Poetry | Keywords: translation, translations