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#poetry

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I have been happy, though in a dream. I have been happy-and I love the theme: Dreams! in their vivid colouring of life As in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife


Edgar Allan Poe


#edgar-allan-poe #poetry #dreams

Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.


John Galsworthy


#dreams #human-nature #inspirational-quotes #john-galsworthy #nobel-laureate

The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.


Richard Dawkins


#because #bible #culture #emphatically #fiction

But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.


Jeffery Deaver


#frankly #get #living #lot #make

I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.


Jeffery Deaver


#go #i #like #poetry #such

I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.


Jeffery Deaver


#developed #i #interest #life #my life

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.


Alexander Pope


#poetry #soul #worth #beauty

Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.


Rita Dove


#come #curriculum #early #get #instead

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.


John Dryden


#foot #poetry

I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.


Elizabeth Edwards


#girl #i #poetry #point #wrote






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