#poetry

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind. ↗

— Don Marquis

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To me, Doors fans were always the 16-year-old idiots at parties, getting stoned, and talking about how Morrison's lyrics were like poetry... like that was a deep thought. ↗

— Bruce McCulloch

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One does not become a poet by uttering beautiful words. One becomes a poet by pouring their soul as wine into the Cup of Love. ↗

— Subhan Zein

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Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry. ↗

— Julie Taymor

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I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

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Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

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For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

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However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

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Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

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Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

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