#poetry

I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity. ↗

— Philip Levine

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I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

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It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

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It's necessary to start most work alone. But I'm tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether it's borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

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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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If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week. ↗

— Charles Darwin

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Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

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You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search. ↗

— Rick Riordan

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Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. ↗

— Thomas Mann

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Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me. ↗

— Robert Frost

#poetry #religion #forgiveness