#poetry

I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans. ↗

— Martin C. Smith

#bed #big #book #collections #goes

She dealt her pretty words like Blades -- How glittering they shone -- And every One unbared a Nerve Or wantoned with a Bone -- She never deemed -- she hurt -- That -- is not Steel's Affair -- A vulgar grimace in the Flesh -- How ill the Creatures bear -- To Ache is human -- not polite -- The Film upon the eye Mortality's old Custom -- Just locking up -- to Die. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#film

Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#been #convincing #especially #nothing #poetry

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

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#much #only #philosophy #poetry

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

#philological #philosophical #poetic #poetry #rhetorical

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

#depth #education #found #mankind #our

For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men. ↗

— Giorgos Seferis

#domain #exists #heart #large #men

Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science. ↗

— Georges Seurat

#i see #only #paintings #poetry #say

I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time - and this includes naps - I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground. ↗

— Charlie Sheen

#bro #deploy #destroy #fingertips #got

I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry. ↗

— Rick Springfield

#i #kids #poetry #quiet #those