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" That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the pronouncements of a Plato can disestablish. "
H. P. Lovecraft
Plato
Even
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" I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went. "
Paul Auster
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" It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither. "
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Happy
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" I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits. "
J. Carter Brown
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" We are supposed to write poetry to keep the gods alive. "
Jim Harrison
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Alive
Write
" Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts. "
H. P. Lovecraft
Few
Minds
Normal
" Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos. "
David Lee Roth
Without
Music
Poetry
" I find great consolation in having a lot of poetry books around. I believe that writing poetry and reading it are deeply intertwined. I've always delighted in the company of the poets I've read. "
Edward Hirsch
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Writing
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" The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful. "
K'naan
Powerful
Poetry
Pure
" Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words. "
Vladimir Nabokov
Rational
Poetry
Through
" You just go where poetry is, whether it's in your heart or your mind or in books or in places where there's live poetry or recordings. "
Joy Harjo
Live
You
Poetry
" The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost. "
Seamus Heaney
Unexpected
Life
Fact
" The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry. "
Bertrand Russell
Mathematics
Excellence
Poetry
" 'Words and Music' on Radio 3 is always a treat. Actors read passages of poetry and prose interspersed with music, and nobody tells you what it is. Later you can look it up online, but at the time you can't cheat. "
Claire Tomalin
Treat
Look
Poetry
" The moment of change is the only poem. "
Adrienne Rich
Only
Poetry
Moment
" Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. "
Novalis
Inflicted
Heals
Poetry
" I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator. "
Allen Ginsberg
Want
Poetry
Say
" From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent. "
H. P. Lovecraft
Greatest
Irony
Horrors
" Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future. "
Octavio Paz
Future
Poetry
Progress
" Learn poetry by heart. If you know a poem by heart, no one can take it away from you, and you can take advantage of it anytime. "
Raymond Aubrac
Know
Poetry
You
" Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. "
Albert Einstein
Ideas
Poetry
Pure
" I am well-nigh resolv'd to write no more tales but merely to dream when I have a mind to, not stopping to do anything so vulgar as to set down the dream for a boarish Publick. "
H. P. Lovecraft
Mind
Down
Dream
" A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. "
Jean Cocteau
Roses
Bother
Poet
" Throw a stick, and the servile dog wheezes and pants and shambles to bring it to you. Do the same before a cat, and he will eye you with coolly polite and somewhat bored amusement. "
H. P. Lovecraft
Cat
You
Will
" I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible. "
Seamus Heaney
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Making
Credit
" All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness. "
H. P. Lovecraft
Happiness
Value
Sum Total
" And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will. "
Ezra Pound
City
Beautiful
New York
" When I applied for grad school, I did not specify genre. I said I wanted an MFA in Creative Writing. I was so cute and stupid! The admissions committee at Pitt decided to put me in poetry. "
Terrance Hayes
Stupid
Cute
Writing
" Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems. "
John Barton
Conversation
Reading
Sometimes
" When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images. "
Niels Bohr
Creating
Used
Facts
" One thing I do know is that poetry, to be understood, must be clear. "
Mary Oliver
Know
Understood
Poetry