#poetry

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

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One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

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Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#arts #logic #mathematics #music #philosophy