Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. Lives of the poets: Milton
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Quote:- Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.
Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil
Author:- C.D. Wright
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poetry is the language of the soul;Poetic Prose, the language of my heart.Each line must flow as in a song,and strike a chord that rings forever.To me, words are music!
Author:- Lori R. Lopez
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
Author:- Edgar Allan Poe
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.
Author:- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poetry is the sound of the human animal.
St Suniti & the Dragon
Author:- Suniti Namjoshi
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
Lyrical Ballads
Author:- William Wordsworth
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poetry isn't like any writing I've ever heard before. I don't understand all of it, just bits of images, sentences that appear half-finished, all fluttering together like brightly colored ribbons in the wind.
Delirium
Author:- Lauren Oliver
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat. Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water.
Author:- Kamand Kojouri
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.
The Pickwick Papers
Author:- Charles Dickens
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
Author:- T.S. Eliot
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.
New Year Letter
Author:- W.H. Auden
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all.
Studies in Words
Author:- C.S. Lewis
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poetry ought to be a by-product of living, and you can't have a by-product unless you've got a product first.
Crossing to Safety
Author:- Wallace Stegner
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Poetry purrs like a kitten on the tip of our tongue. Each word fluidly floating from our lips, like little crystalline snowflakes, before settling onto an emotional wonderland of forgotten feelings. It has the power to pull our deepest emotions to the surface of consciousness and to serenade our soul with the haunting melody of a self, lost... and finally found.
Author:- Jaeda DeWalt
Category:- poetry