#poetry

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

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

— Robert Graves

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Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. ↗

— A. E. Housman

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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. ↗

— A. E. Housman

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Some Marines made fun of the fact that I had done plays and studied poetry, but then I won the award for physical training. ↗

— David Hunt

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Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays. ↗

— Patrick White

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A poet can survive everything but a misprint. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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