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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”
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Poetry is related to philosophy as experience is related to empirical science.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The World as Will and Representation
experience
philosophy
poetry
science
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”
Aristotle
History
poetry
Why should poetry have to make sense?”
Charlie Chaplin
poetry
Poesy dissolves foreign being into our own.”
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Fragments
poetry
The poem: a prolonged hesitation between sound and sense.”
Paul Valéry
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Tel quel
poetry
Poetry, it's one of the most pretty nicknames we give to life.”
Jacques Prévert
life
poetry
Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen.”
Leonardo da Vinci
painting
poetry
Love is the poetry of the senses.”
Honore de Balzac
love
poetry
The poet consecrates himself to and consumes himself in the task of defining and constructing a language within the language.”
Paul Valéry
Language
Poet
poetry
For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
poetry
Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
poetry
word
It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
poetry
word
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.”
Oscar Wilde
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
poetry
to live
writing
Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nature
History
poetry
truth
Poetry is indispensable — if I only knew what for.”
Jean Cocteau
poetry
Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.”
Jean Cocteau
poetry
There are dreams that are pure poems.”
Carl Gustav Jung
dream
poetry
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.”
Henry David Thoreau
life
philosophy
poetry
Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.”
Virginia Woolf
poetry
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.”
Bertrand Russell
poetry
Personality is everything in art and poetry.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
art
poetry
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.”
Paul Valéry
poetry
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.”
Voltaire
poetry
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.”
Gaston Bachelard
future
Language
poetry
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.”
Charles Baudelaire
dance
music
poetry
All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.”
Gustave Flaubert
poetry
science
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.”
Victor Hugo
poetry
For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
poetry
Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
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