#poe

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. ↗

— Guillaume Apollinaire

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Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. ↗

— Aristotle

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In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've always stopped myself. ↗

— Simon Armitage

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People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book. ↗

— Simon Armitage

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My friend, you thought you lost Him; that all your life you've been separated from Him. Filled with wonder, you've always looked outside for Him, and haven't searched within your own house. ↗

— Rumi

#poetry #life

Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. ↗

— Antonin Artaud

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The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be. ↗

— John Ashbery

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I would kiss you in the middle of the ocean during a lightning storm cuz I'd rather be left for dead than wondering what thunder sounds like. ↗

— Andrea Gibson

#love #poem #wasabi #love

It is important to me that what Poe has to say gets across to people. I want to give people the feeling that I get from all this. I think that we are succeeding. The feedback is very warm. ↗

— John Astin

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