#poetry

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead. ↗

— T.S. Eliot

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Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry. ↗

— Julian Barnes

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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart ↗

— Alexander Pope

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There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said. ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

#power-of-words #art

Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives. ↗

— Aberjhani

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Art too is just a way of living. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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What a comfort to know that God is a poet. ↗

— Rachel Held Evans

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The poets are supposed to liberate the words – not chain them in phrases. Who told the poets they were supposed to think? Poets are meant to sing and to make words sing. Writers don't own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody? 'Your very own words,' indeed! And who are you? ↗

— Brion Gysin

#brion-gysin #cut-ups-self-explained #poetry #art

Sadness is the ambrosia of all art. ↗

— Frances Fong

#disgust #inertia #isolation #poetry #sadness

Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye.... ↗

— Emily Dickinson

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