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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Quote of F. Scott Fitzgerald - For awhile after you quit Keats...


Biography - F. Scott Fitzgerald:

American novelist and short story writer.
Born: 1896 - Died: 1940
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: United States
United States

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.



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Quotes for: poetry


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Quotes about poetry:


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





Why should poetry have to make sense?





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





Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Poesy dissolves foreign being into our own.





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











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F. Scott Fitzgerald also said...


Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.





One should, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.





The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.





Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.





Action is character.





Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.












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