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Poetry

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Famous quotes containing the word poetry:

    “There is nothing more poetic than the truth. He who does not see poetry in it will always be a poor versifier outside of it.”
    —Multatuli [Eduard Douwer Dekker] (1820–1887)

    “The good, supreme, divine poetry is above the rules and reason. Whoever discerns its beauty with a firm, sedate gaze does not see it, any more than he sees the splendor of a lightning flash. It does not persuade our judgement, it ravishes and overwhelms it.”
    —Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    “I cannot say what poetry is; I know that our sufferings and our concentrated joy, our states of plunging far and dark and turning to come back to the world—so that the moment of intense turning seems still and universal—all are here, in a music like the music of our time, like the hero and like the anonymous forgotten; and there is an exchange here in which our lives are met, and created.”
    —Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980)