#poetry

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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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people. ↗

— Adrian Mitchell

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Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry. ↗

— Adrian Mitchell

#audience #commercial #ideal #needs #opposite

Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#become #fonder #i #maybe #poetry

Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos. ↗

— David Lee Roth

#beatniks #like #music #poetry #rap

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know. ↗

— Joseph Roux

#learn #poetry #science #those #who

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. ↗

— John Ruskin

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To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. ↗

— John Ruskin

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The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#delight #exaltation #excellence #found #highest