The best Quotes and Sayings about Poesie

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Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.

W. S. Merwin
 
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For poetry, more than any other art, except music, has a compelling hold upon the spiritual side of life.

Lizette Woodworth Reese
 
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Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.

WritingEugenio Montale
 
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I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.

InspirationEugenio Montale
 
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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.

Audre Lorde
 
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Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.

Books, FoolishnessCassandra Clare in The Infernal Devices
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

WordsEdgar Allan Poe
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Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

Words, WritingNathaniel Hawthorne
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When power leads men towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations.

Power, Poems, ArroganzJohn F. Kennedy
 
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