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Letter "P" » Poetry
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«The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.»
«The poet doesn't invent. He listens.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| About:
Poetry
| Keywords:
invent, listens, poet
«The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather»
«The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.»
«The poetry of the earth is never dead.»
«The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Medicine,
Poetry
| Keywords:
conjoin, conjoined, curious, harp, harping, Office of, poets, The Office, the Poets, tune
«The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the challenges of life»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| About:
Poetry,
Poets,
Politicians
| Keywords:
Challenges, in common, politician
«The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.»
«The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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Poetry
| Keywords:
anticipation, in reality
«The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing»
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