#poetry

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. ↗

— Edward Young

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I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I'm much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons. ↗

— Marguerite Young

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Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

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Personality is everything in art and poetry. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Superstition is the poetry of life. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#poetry #superstition

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#easy #everywhere #looking #paper #poetry

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either. ↗

— Robert Graves

#either #money #then

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

— Thom Gunn

#deep #deep feeling #feeling #good #help

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

— Thom Gunn

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