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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Daniel Radcliffe | poetry
As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you’re always ultimately going to be saying somebody else’s words. I don’t think I’d have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I’d love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.
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Havelock Ellis | poetry
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
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Charles Baudelaire | poetry
Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
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Richard M. Nixon | poetry
In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.
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Muhammad Iqbal | poetry
When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry.
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Satyajit Ray | poetry
At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.
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