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Letter "P" » Poetry
«...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source.»
«Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.»
«Poetry: the best words in the best order»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Poetry
| Keywords:
in good order, order, poetry, well-ordered
«Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day»
«Poetry, men attain By subtler pain More flagrant in the brain - An honesty unfeigned, A heart unchained, A madness well restrained»
«Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Passion,
Poetry
| Keywords:
dominion, obscurity
«Poesy was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind by submitting the shews of things to the desires of the mind.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Poetry
| Keywords:
erect, poesy, shews, submitting
«Poetry, like chastity, can be carried to far»
«Poetry, good sir, in my opinion, is like a tender virgin, very young, and extremely beautiful, whom divers others virgins - namely, all the other sciences - make it their business to enrich, polish and adorn; and to her it belongs to make use of them»
«Poetry is the clear expression of mixed feelings.»
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