Gilbert K. Chesterton | poetry
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Richard Dawkins | poetry
The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.
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William Wordsworth | poetry
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
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William Blake | poetry
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
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Niels Bohr | poetry
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.
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T. S. Eliot | poetry
Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
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Bertrand Russell | poetry
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.
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Jean-Paul Sartre | poetry
Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
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T. S. Eliot | poetry
As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug’s game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
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