#poetry

I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry. ↗

— Story Musgrave

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The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity. ↗

— George Oppen

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What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive. ↗

— Arnold Palmer

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There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans. ↗

— Helen Thomas

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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry. ↗

— Walter Pater

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That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact. ↗

— Walter Pater

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The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. ↗

— Plato

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. ↗

— Plutarch

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Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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