Poetry
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Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
Personality is everything in art and poetry.
Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.
What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations.
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.
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
Read something of interest every day — something of interest to you, not to your teacher or your best friend or your minister/rabbi/priest. Comics count. So does poetry. So do editorials in your school newspaper. Or a biography of a rock star. Or an instructional manual. Or the Bible.
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!
When I was in college, I really liked poetry. I don't read much anymore.
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.
I've read a lot of war writing, even World War I writing, the British war poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves's memoir 'Goodbye to All That', and a civilian memoir, 'Testament of Youth', by Vera Brittain.
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.