Poetry Quotes

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Writer, Philosopher

“There is no doubt that the loftiest written wisdom is either rhymed or in some way musically measured,--is, in form as well as substance, poetry; and a volume which should contain the condensed wisdom of mankind need not have one rhythmless line.”

Needs Doubt Poetry

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

“The poet who walks by moonlight is conscious of a tide in his thought which is to be referred to lunar influence.”

Inspirational Moon Poetry

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Henry Miller

Novelist, Essayist

“I like the one about the little soulworms that fly out of the nest for the resurrection.”

Soul Poetry

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Lewis Carroll

Author, Mathematician

“In autumn, when the leaves are brown, Take pen and ink, and write it down.”

Writing Poetry

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

“The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.”

Writing Today Poetry

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Jennifer Stone

Actress

“For a poet, style is the only morality.”

Style Poetry

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

“True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.”

Art Spring

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Henry James

Author

“Happy you poets who can be present and so present by a simple flicker of your genius, and not, like the clumsier race, have to laya train and pile up faggots that may not after prove in the least combustible!”

Simple Race Poetry

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Henry James

Author

“It exhibits the effort of an essentially prosaic mind to lift itself, by a prolonged muscular strain, into poetry.”

Mind Effort Poetry

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Poet, Educator

“Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity, but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite.”

Poetry Infinite Suggestions

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Friedrich Schiller

Playwright, Poet

“Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies ideas to that reality.”

Real Ideas Poetry

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Jennifer Stone

Actress

“You can't make poetry out of thought; poetry is passion. Linear thought must be seduced by wild mind, by the fires of ecstasy.”

Passion Fire Poetry

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