#poe

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true. ↗

— William Shenstone

#every #good #includes #poet #reverse

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical. ↗

— William Shenstone

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To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool. ↗

— Robert E. Sherwood

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On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people. ↗

— Hu Shih

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I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens. ↗

— Russell Simmons

#doing #getting #got #happens #having

Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would take a local poem and put that to music. ↗

— Carly Simon

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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. ↗

— Edith Sitwell

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Poetry is the deification of reality. ↗

— Edith Sitwell

#reality

It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap. ↗

— Peter Steele

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