"The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs."

Poetry, Music, Dance, Being

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"The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs."

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"One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry."

Nathalie Sarraute, Russian Lawyer

Poetry, People

"A tough life needs a tough language-and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers-a language powerful enough to say how it is."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

Poetry, Life, Language, Expression

"Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction."

George Murray, Canadian Poet

Poetry, Fiction, Writing

"I suppose that's how it looks in prose. But it's very different if you look at it through poetry and I think it's nicer' Anne recovered herself and her eyes shone and her cheeks flushed 'to look at it through poetry."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

Poetry, Perspective, Optimism, Art

"Always learn poems by heart, ' she said. 'They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay."

Janet Fitch, American Author

Poetry, Learning, Memory, Emotion

"The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?"

John C. Ransom, American Poet

Poetry,

"Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

Poetry,

"A poet is not an inventor. A poet is a player that plays with words on the field of human imagination to excite a reader's mind with the colors of emotion."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Poetry, Imagination, Words, Emotion

"I learned from Whitman that the poem is a temple - or a green field - a place to enter, and in which to feel. Only in a secondary way is it an intellectual thing - an artifact, a moment of seemly and robust wordiness -wonderful as that part of it is. I learned that the poem was made not just to exist, but to speak -to be company. It was everything that was needed, when everything was needed."

Mary Oliver, American Poet

Poetry, Observation, Truth, Wisdom

"The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness."

Muriel Rukeyser, American Poet

Poetry, Spirit

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"Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter."

Religion

"I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old."

Society

"He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window."

Philosophy

"Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place."

Man

"I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination."

Art

"The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find."

Life

"Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!"

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"One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry."

"A tough life needs a tough language-and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers-a language powerful enough to say how it is."

"Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction."

"I suppose that's how it looks in prose. But it's very different if you look at it through poetry and I think it's nicer' Anne recovered herself and her eyes shone and her cheeks flushed 'to look at it through poetry."

"Always learn poems by heart, ' she said. 'They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay."

"The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?"

"Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it."

"A poet is not an inventor. A poet is a player that plays with words on the field of human imagination to excite a reader's mind with the colors of emotion."

"The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness."

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"Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?"

"To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery."

"If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist."

"Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter."

"I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old."

"He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window."

"Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place."

"I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination."

"The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find."

"Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!"