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Biography - Charlie Chaplin:

English comic actor, filmmaker and composer.
Born: 1889 - Died: 1977
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom
United Kingdom

Why should poetry have to make sense?



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Translation

(French, German)



French
Pourquoi la poésie devrait avoir du sens ?

German
Warum sollte Poesie Sinn machen?




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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Poetry is indispensable — if I only knew what for.




Quotes for: poetry


Quotes

Quotes about poetry:


Poetry is related to philosophy as experience is related to empirical science.





Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.





Poesy dissolves foreign being into our own.





Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.





Love is the poetry of the senses.





Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen.











Quotes

Charlie Chaplin also said...


Look up to the sky. You'll never find rainbows if you’re looking down.





A day without laughter is a day wasted.





Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.





Laughter is the closest distance between two people.





I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.





We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.












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