poetry Quotes

“Nothing conceivable is so petty, so insipid, so crowded with paltry interests, in one word so anti-poetic, as the life of a man in the United States.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

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“He read the verses backwards but then they were not poetry.”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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“It is merely because a stepping-stone, here and there, is heedlessly left unsupplied in our road to the Differential Calculus, that this latter is not altogether as simple a thing as a sonnet by Mr. Solomon Seesaw.”

― Edgar Allan Poe, Eureka

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“If your everyday life seems poor, don’t blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches; because for the creator there is not poverty and no poor, indifferent place.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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“Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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“if you couldn’t trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?”

― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

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“I also became a poet and for one year lived in a paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also might obtain a niche in the temple where the names of Homer and Shakespeare are consecrated.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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“Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“The apartment faces an alley and is entered by a fire escape, a structure whose name is a touch of accidental poetic truth, for all of these huge buildings are always burning with the slow and implacable fires of human desperation.”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

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“I really did think at one time that I was on the verge of becoming a poet, but Providence was kind enough to save me from that disaster.”

― Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World

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