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Letter "P" » poetry
«Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.»
Author: A. E. Housman
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Poet,
Scholar)
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About:
Poetry
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Keywords:
almost,
draw,
extinguish,
extinguishes,
extinguishing,
inadvisable,
meaning,
perfect,
poetry,
understanding,
usually
«All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears»
Author: Alfred Douglas
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About:
Poetry
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Keywords:
blood,
blooded,
Blood and,
forged,
forges,
forging,
good,
link,
Linking,
patiently,
poetry,
slowly,
sweat,
sweated,
sweating,
sweats,
tearing,
tears,
tear up,
The Link,
tore
«All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry»
«Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.»
«In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.»
Author: Paul Dirac
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About:
Poetry,
Science
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Keywords:
as to,
exact,
exacted,
exacting,
exacts,
knew,
opposite,
poetry,
science,
tries,
understood
«I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty»
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
(
Critic,
Editor,
Poet,
Writer)
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About:
Beauty
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Keywords:
brief,
briefed,
briefest,
briefing,
Creation,
define,
in brief,
poetry,
rhythmical
«He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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About:
Character,
Confidence,
Courage,
Life,
Poets,
Risk,
Writers
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Keywords:
After life,
come to life,
dare,
Get A Life,
lives,
not,
On Writing,
others,
poetry,
realise,
that,
they,
The Others,
This Is Your Life,
To be written,
write,
write of,
write out
«All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.»
«I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.»
Author: Socrates
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Philosopher)
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About:
Poetry,
Wisdom
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Keywords:
decided,
deliver,
enabled,
inspiration,
instinct,
in the least,
messages,
poetry,
poets,
Prophets,
seers,
sublime,
such as
«It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.»