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Poetry

«We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic.»
Author: E. Merrill Root | About: Life, Poetry, Wonder
«To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.»
«We all write poems; it is simply that the poets are the ones who write in words»
Author: John Fowles | About: Poetry | Keywords: poems, poets, the Poets
«To feel greatly, and understand greatly, and express greatly, the naturalBeauty, is the sole business of poetry.The rest's diversion: those holy or noble sentiments, the intricate ideas,The love, lust, longing: reasons, but not the reason.»
Author: Robinson Jeffers (Writer) | About: Beauty, Poetry
«To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts»
Author: Paul Valery (Critic, Essayist, Poet) | About: Poetry, Writing | Keywords: infinite number, Verses
«The truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind.»
Author: Emily Dickinson (Poet) | About: Poetry, Truth | Keywords: dazzle
«We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran (Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Choice, Poetry, Sorrow | Keywords: joys, sorrows
«For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul.»
«We [poets] set men free from their desires.»
«To a poet nothing can be useless»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Poetry