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Poetry

«Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.»
«Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere»
Author: James Martineau | About: Language, Poetry, Prayer, Religion | Keywords: atmosphere
«Shall Life renew these bodies? Of a truthAll death will he annul, all tears assuage?Or fill these void veins full again with youthAnd wash with an immortal water age?»
«Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.»
«Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.»
«Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over»
«Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity -it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.»
«Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.»
Author: John Keats (Poet) | About: Poetry | Keywords: amaze, enters, startle, unobtrusive
«Poetry should only occupy the idle.»
Author: Lord Byron | About: Poetry | Keywords: idle, occupy
«Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.»
Author: T.S. Eliot (Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet) | About: Poetry | Keywords: rapidly