Poetry
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Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
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.
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.
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.
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through any one that suits you.
Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!
When I was in college, I really liked poetry. I don't read much anymore.
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.
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