277 Quotations with Poetry.
- 1. Adrian Mitchell: Most people ignore most poetry
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- 2. Lewis Thomas: The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Scie ...
- 3. Paul Dirac: In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyo ...
- 4. John Keats: Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike t ...
- 5. Robert Louis Stevenson: Wine is bottled poetry.
- 6. Winnie-the-Pooh: Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And a ...
- 7. Ralph Waldo Emerson: The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Tal ...
- 8. Johnson: Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the l ...
- 9. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Sooner of later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly ...
- 10. Zona Gale: I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good dige ...
- 11. Bertrand Russell: The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, wh ...
- 12. John Ruskin: The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and ...
- 13. William Ellery Channing: Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of yout ...
- 14. Emily Dickinson: Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not ...
- 15. T.S. Eliot: I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible onl ...
- 16. Randall Jarrell: I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in ...
- 17. John F. Kennedy: When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. W ...
- 18. Plato: Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
- 19. Frederick William Robertson: The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.
- 20. L. Schefer: The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in ...
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