Quote Genre: Poetry

Carl Sandburg – ‘Poetry is the opening and cl…

‘Poetry is the opening and closing of a door leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment.’

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John RUSKIN – ‘What is poetry? The suggesti…

‘What is poetry? The suggestion by the imagination of noble grounds for the noble emotions.’

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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce – ‘RIMER n. A poet regarded wit…

‘RIMER n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem.’

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Russell Baker – ‘Anticipating that most poetr…

‘Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through OHare Airport the public to its loss reads very little of it.’

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Philip James Bailey – ‘Poets are all who love who f…

‘Poets are all who love who feel great truths And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.’

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Wystan Hugh Auden – ‘It is a sad fact about our c…

‘It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.’

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Dorothy Parker – ‘Byron and Shelley and Keats …

‘Byron and Shelley and Keats Were a trio of lyrical treats.’

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- ‘Ugliness is a point of view:…

‘Ugliness is a point of view: an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist.’

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Aeschylus – ‘Do not kick against the pric…

‘Do not kick against the pricks.’

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Joseph Addison – ‘For wheresoeer I turn my rav…

‘For wheresoeer I turn my ravishd eyes Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise Poetic fields encompass me around And still I seem to tread on classic ground.’

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