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#poets

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Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.


Julian Barnes


#creativity #poetry #poets #reality #writers

Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.


Aberjhani


#cultural-arts #famous-poets #humanity #jazz #jazz-appreciation-month

A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.


Arthur Schopenhauer


#funny #misanthropy #philosophy #poets #schopenhauer

Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.


Aberjhani


#art-and-the-soul #creative-genius #creativity #famous-quotes-by-famous-poets #mirrors

I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I'm an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists.


Ian Mcewan


#described #english #heard #i #i think

Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.


Allen Ginsberg


#beauty #eyes #hope #perspective #poetry

Hope is a most beautiful drug.


Jeremy Mercer


#paris #poets #writers #beauty

If you could have walked on the planet before humans lived here, maybe the Ivory Coast would have seemed more beautiful than La Côte d'Azur.


Dejan Stojanovic


#dejan-stojanovic #earth #french-riviera #humans #ivory-coast

Poets have to be sensitive to their audience, but it does not mean that they censor themselves. I realise my audience is diverse. Some will read with empathy and curiosity while others will take offense.


John Barton


#censor #curiosity #diverse #does #empathy

A change of style is a change of meaning.


Wallace Stevens


#change






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