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Letter "P" » Poetry
«Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.»
«Good prose is the selection of the best words; poetry is the best words in the best order; and journalese is any old words in any old order»
«Good poetry .. makes the universe .. reveal its .. 'secret'»
Author: Hafiz of Persia | About: Poetry, Universe
«For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.»
«Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.»
«For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain [and] the noise of battle. [It] has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.»
Author: John Cheever | About: Grief, Poetry | Keywords: lends, universality, youthful
«From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics, compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness, in which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbor, and to love your neighbor's wife»
«Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.»
«Every old poem is sacred.»
Author: Horace (Poet) | About: Poetry
«Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.»

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