Henry David Thoreau | poetry
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
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Jim Morrison | poetry
If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
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Aristotle | poetry
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
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Aristotle | poetry
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
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Jim Morrison | poetry
Listen, real poetry doesn’t say anything it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.
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Socrates | poetry
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.