#poetry

Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help. ↗

— Thom Gunn

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My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand. ↗

— Thom Gunn

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Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race. ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

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None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry. ↗

— Edith Hamilton

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It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope. ↗

— Tom Hanks

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I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age. I wrote a lot of stories and poetry and... I had a desire to create always. And I always had a desire to show my work. ↗

— P. J. Harvey

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I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time. ↗

— Robert Hass

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Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

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A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

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