#poetry

Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself. ↗

— James Schuyler

#certainly #going #i #myself #never

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. ↗

— Walter Scott

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On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton. ↗

— Richard Serra

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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap. ↗

— Peter Steele

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Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#dictionary #poetry #rhyming #seen #things

If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#capacity #ideas #images #love #must

Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#bottom #boy #echoes #familiar #feeling

A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

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