#poetry

Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#familiar #hidden #lifts #makes #objects

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical. ↗

— William Shenstone

#felt #frequently #lines #most #musical

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#dictionary #poetry #rhyming #seen #things

A lot happens by accident in poetry. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#happens #lot #poetry

I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#always #assemblies #bend #come #discussed

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it. ↗

— Walter Pater

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Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather. ↗

— Anna Jameson

#chords #compared #conversation #love #may

I'm hopefully touring with Colin Baker next year in Perfect Strangers. I have performed with Sylvia Simms in poetry and music evenings. I would love to do those for the rest of my career - they are so fun and witty. ↗

— Louise Jameson

#career #colin #evenings #fun #hopefully

I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn't play, it has a poignancy to it. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#beautiful #comes #davis #forms #i