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| Author | Quote | E-Mail this quote |
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| Adrian Mitchell | Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people. | |
| Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967) | Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child. - (poet and biographer) | |
| Dead Poet's Society | We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. - (the movie; Robin Williams) | |
| Dr. Samuel Johnson (1707 - 1784) | Johnson was asked whether Derrick or Smart was the best poet?' Johnson at once felt himself rouzed; and answered, 'Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea.' | |
| Jean Cocteau | I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say. | |
| Jean Cocteau | Poetry is a religion without hope. | |
| Jorge Luis Borges (1899 - 1986) | There are people who barely feel poetry, and they are generally dedicated to teaching it. | |
| Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) | There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope. | |
| Oscar Wilde | All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. | |
| Paul Dirac (1902 - 1984) | In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. | |
| William Shenstone | Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases. |
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