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Letter "P" » Poetry
«Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.»
Author: James Branch Cabell
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Poetry
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Against the man, poetry, rebellion, Rebellions, the rebellion
«Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.»
Author: Leonard Cohen
(Novelist, Poet, Singer, Song Writer)
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Poetry
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ash, burning, evidence
«Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.»
«Poetry is fact given over to imagery»
«Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers»
«Poetry is more philosophical and of higher value than history.»
«Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
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Poetry
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expresses, finer, history, particular, Particulars, philosophical, poetry, universal, Universals
«Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance»
«Poetry is music in words; and music is poetry in sound: both excellent sauce, but those have lived and died poor, who made them their meat»
«Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.»
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