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Letter "P" » Poetry
«Poetry is the deification of reality.»
Author: Dame Edith Sitwell
(Biographer, Critic, Poet)
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Poetry,
Words
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deification, poetry
«Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls»
«Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.»
«Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.»
Author: Marianne Moore
(Poet)
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Art,
Imagination,
Poetry
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Art of, creating, gardens, imaginary, imaginary being, poetry, the art, toads
«Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.»
«Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully»
Author: William Cullen Bryant
(Writer)
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Art,
Poetry
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arranges, delightfully, excite, powerfully, selects, symbols
«Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air»
Author: Carl Sandburg
(Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Poetry
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air, animal, in the air, journal, journals, Journal of, land, on land, sea, sea animal, The Journal, To Fly, wanting
«Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
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Art,
Poetry
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lending, shadows, substantiating
«Poetry is the bill and coo of sex»
«Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.»
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