Poetry

Entdecke 96 inspirierende Zitate, Sprüche und Weisheiten zum Thema Poetry.

Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan...

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Vikram Seth

My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do.

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George Steiner

Poetry is the way that we transcend language through language. And thus our freedom lies in the poetry of all things.

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Ilyas Kassam

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

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Denis Diderot

Real Martial Arts is Mathematics, Physics, Poetry; Meditation in Action.

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Soke Behzad Ahmadi

For it has come about, by the wise economy of nature, that our modern spirit can almost dispense with language; the commonest expressions do, since no...

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Virginia Woolf

I define influence simply as literary love, tempered by defense. The defenses vary from poet to poet. But the overwhelming presence of love is vital t...

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Harold Bloom

I don't think anybody reads a book of poetry front to back. Editors and reviewers only. I don't think anybody else does.

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Billy Collins

Poetry is a life-cherishing force.

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Mary Oliver

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

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Edmund Burke

I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry - as he wore dashikis and Afros in the '70s...

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Omari Hardwick

Life writes the poetry, but it will always call for witnesses and scribes alike to tattoo its echoes upon the ghosts of trees.

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Ged Thompson ~Poet

He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.

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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I haven't come to you only to take , I haven't come to you empty handed : I bring you poetry as great as yours but in anther tongue , I bring you blac...

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Ahdaf Soueif

Poetry, above all, is a series of intense moments - its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing with emotion.

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Carol Ann Duffy

He thinks my hair smells like spring rain. I'm really trying to remain stoic and unaffected. I remind myself that I don't like poetic language. I don'...

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Nicola Yoon

When you write, it's just a much more crystalline, compressed version of the voice you think with - though not the one you speak with. I think your wr...

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Douglas Coupland

We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.

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Jack Prelutsky

Your poetry is lonely. And yet, you write to feel less alone.

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pleasefindthis

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

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Umberto Eco
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