Poetry Quotes

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Poet, Playwright, Novelist

“If you want to understand poetry, You have to go to its origin, If you want to understand the poet, You have to go to the Poet's home.”

Want Home Poetry

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Playwright, Novelist

“The question "From where does the poet get it?" addresses only the what, nobody learns anything about the how when asking that question.”

Doe Poetry Asking

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John Lennon

Musician, Activist

“How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.”

Poetry Mystery

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Jonathan Swift

Satirist, Writer

“From not the gravest of Divines, Accept for once some serious Lines.”

Lines Serious

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John Fuller

Author

“Poetry surprises us with what we already know.”

Literature Poetry Surprise

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Joseph Brodsky

Poet, Essayist

“In poetic thought, the role of the subconscious is played by euphony.”

Literature Roles

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John Stuart Mill

Philosopher, Political Economist

“Eloquence is heard; poetry is overheard ... All poetry is of the nature of the soliloquy.”

Art Poetry

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John Fuller

Author

“It is the unspecified 'you' of modern love poems that I am mostly concerned with here. At least, the addressee is commonly a lover, and the very fact that the name is withheld is offered as a guarantee of the closeness and significance of the relationship.”

Names Poetry Guarantees

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John Ruskin

Art Critic, Writer

“Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak.”

Speak Saws Poetry

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Joseph Brodsky

Poet, Essayist

“Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation.”

Art Way Poetry

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John Keats

Poet

“A drainless shower Of light is poesy: 'tis the supreme of power; 'Tis might half slumbering on its own right arm.”

Light Half Poetry

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John Keats

Poet

“Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong, And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song.”

Song Sweet Poetry

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