Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel | poetry
The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?
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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel | poetry
Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
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Naguib Mahfouz | poetry
I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.
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Don Marquis | poetry
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
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Denis Diderot | poetry
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
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Tahar Ben Jelloun | poetry
I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that’s not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.
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Lascelles Abercrombie | poetry
Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.
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Chinua Achebe | poetry
But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.
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