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Poetry Quotes

The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.

Richard Dawkins

Culture Poetry Bible Reality Fiction

I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.

Marguerite Young

Talent Poetry Devotion Real Sure

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Happiness Poetry Sorrow Deepest

Poetry is a beautiful way of expressing feelings - happy, sad, angry, caring. It's also a way that we share with other people, to help them with those feelings.

Mattie Stepanek

Sad Beautiful Angry Poetry Caring

The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.

Bruce Dickinson

Poetry Mystical Cover Album Forms

You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were the reason I developed neuroses. These people that tortured my life were using my art, my poetry, as fuel for them, to torture other people.

Life Music Art Moment Poetry People

I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that.

Samantha Morton

Talent Poetry Writing Think Short

People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.

Lucille Clifton

Mistake Poetry People Celebrate Wish

I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem.

Hope Poetry Healing Potential Bad

What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.

Life Eyes Poetry Flowers Details

Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.

Poetry Universe Born Earth Living

But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.

Poetry Writing You Living Poet Get

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

Nature History Poetry More Something

I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.

Eugenio Montale

Poetry Me Wait Search Go Visit

In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a High Court judge if he were forced to follow the true poetic formula, doing the job for love, being forced into pubs for relief.

Patrick Kavanagh

Love Job Poetry Judge Interesting

Everyone is not able, or inclined, to write poetry in the narrower sense any more than everyone is qualified to take part in a walking race. But just as all of us can and do walk, so all of us can and do use language poetically.

Walk Poetry Language Walking Race

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

Poetry You Govern Prose Campaign

Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.

Purpose Poetry Information Warning

The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.

Moment Poetry Try Confusion Anything

I do think digital media encourages speed-reading, which can be fine if one is simply seeking information. But a serious novel or work of history or volume of poetry is an experience one should savor, take time over.

Work History Time Experience Poetry

I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.

Life Family Poetry Believe Rules

True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.

Eugenio Montale

Poetry People Pictures Know True

It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.

Poetry I Can Monuments Edgy Left

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

Architecture Man Dress Poetry Three

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