#poet

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry. ↗

— Laura Riding

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The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly. ↗

— Frederick William Robertson

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Gloria watched the swollen white orb of a hot-air balloon rising over Navy Pier and knew she had to break it off with Oliver, for he was the type who would never enjoy hot-air balloons, Van Morrison songs, or mess, whether from orgasm or otherwise. But who was she to be dreaming about mess today? ↗

— Andrea Kayne Kaufman

#music #ocd #oxford #poetry #redemptive

Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact. ↗

— Henry Rollins

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Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me. ↗

— Isaac Rosenberg

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Always be a poet, even in prose. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. ↗

— Robert Frost

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Poetry is what gets lost in translation. ↗

— Robert Frost

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I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence? ↗

— James Thomson

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There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth. ↗

— James Thurber

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