#poetry

The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. ↗

— Plato

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. ↗

— Plutarch

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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

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Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty. ↗

— Dennis Potter

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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry. ↗

— Reynolds Price

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