#poetry

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

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Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#civic #content #dramatic #endorsement #expression

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry. ↗

— Laura Riding

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The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly. ↗

— Frederick William Robertson

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Gloria watched the swollen white orb of a hot-air balloon rising over Navy Pier and knew she had to break it off with Oliver, for he was the type who would never enjoy hot-air balloons, Van Morrison songs, or mess, whether from orgasm or otherwise. But who was she to be dreaming about mess today? ↗

— Andrea Kayne Kaufman

#music #ocd #oxford #poetry #redemptive

Always be a poet, even in prose. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#always #even #poet #prose

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. ↗

— Robert Frost

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I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion. ↗

— Zona Gale

#digestion #good #good digestion #i #know

Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel. ↗

— Jim Morrison

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