Gertrude Stein | poetry
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Charles Baudelaire | poetry
France is not poetic she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.
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James Joyce | poetry
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
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John Updike | poetry
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
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Horace Walpole | poetry
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
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Audre Lorde | poetry
Poetry is not only dream and vision it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
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Ezra Pound | poetry
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance… poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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A. E. Housman | poetry
Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
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