#poetry

It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse. ↗

— John Drinkwater

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The poem is the point at which our strength gave out. ↗

— Richard Rosen

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The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry. ↗

— Erik Satie

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Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

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Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence. ↗

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

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Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

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I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry. ↗

— Amber Tamblyn

#good #i #lots #poetry #read

If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money. ↗

— Robert Graves

#neither #poetry

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique. ↗

— Karl Shapiro

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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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