#poetry

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

— Giorgos Seferis

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

— Georges Seurat

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Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical. ↗

— William Shenstone

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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 is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet. ↗

— Huston Smith

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A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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