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" Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process. "

Franz Grillparzer

Journey

Science

Art

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" At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music. "

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" Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. "

" Eloquence is the poetry of prose. "

" The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Poetry

Cheese

Subject

" 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. "

" I had feelings that I didn't know what to do with, and I felt better when I started writing them. I thought of it as poetry. I did notice girls really liked it. Better than football. They liked the combination. "

" Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos. "

" There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write. "

" Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind. "

" Someone who's awake in the middle of the night is a soul consciousness when everyone else is asleep, and that creates a feeling of solitude in poetry that I very much like. "

" Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance. "

" You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words. "

" You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend. "

Franz Grillparzer

Stupidity

Your

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" The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it. "

Mahmoud Darwish

Importance

Finally

" If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. "