#poetry

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images. ↗

— Niels Bohr

#comes #concerned #creating #describing #facts

I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality, the death of poetry and the death of a dream. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress. ↗

— Lord Byron

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Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it. ↗

— Simon Callow

#bleak #house #huge #just #most

And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for me, it's just been so worth the effort. It's like I'm planting a garden in my head. ↗

— Jane Campion

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As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide. ↗

— Jane Campion

#decide #how #i #keats #leave

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. ↗

— John Updike

#fiction #hugging #open #poetry #sailing

Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets. ↗

— Federico Fellini

#lack #money #poetry #poets

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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