#poetry

One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry? ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Because people are very interested in my poetry, in what I say. ↗

— Compay Segundo

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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

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How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry. ↗

— Allen Tate

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Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

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Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of. ↗

— Tom Holt

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And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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