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Letter "P" » Poetry
«If we can discover the meaning in the trilling of a frog, perhaps we may understand why it is for us not merely noise but a song of poetry and emotion.»
«In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.»
Author: Muriel Rukeyser
(Writer)
| About:
Poetry,
Poets,
Punishment,
Speech
| Keywords:
free speech, penalty, poems
«In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.»
«In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.»
«In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all»
«It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back»
«In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well»
«It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Poetry
| Keywords:
Good poem, indifferent, poem
«In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.»
«It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Poetry
| Keywords:
as it is, poetry, translate, translates, translating
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