Michael Tippett | poetry
Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.
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Edith Hamilton | poetry
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
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Raoul Vaneigem | poetry
The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.
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Cheryl Hines | poetry
Bad, quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff, because it really comes from the heart.
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Salvatore Quasimodo | poetry
Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.
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Salvatore Quasimodo | poetry
He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.
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Goldwin Smith | poetry
As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.
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