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Letter "P" » Poetry
«Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal, but which the reader recognizes as his own»
Author: Salvatore Quasimodo
(Critic, Poet, Translator)
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Poetry
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Interior, reader, recognizes, revelation, Revelation of
«Poetry is the language of a state of crisis»
«Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility»
Author: William Wordsworth
(Poet)
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Poetry
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emotion, feelings, origin, overflow, overflowed, overflowing with, overflows, poetry, recollected, recollects, spontaneous, tranquility
«Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.»
«Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment»
«Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.»
«Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.»
«Poetry is the suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions»
«Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.»
«Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
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Poetry
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Anything Else, contempt, for anything, holds, universal
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