"Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race."

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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

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

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

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"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

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

Muriel Rukeyser, American Poet

Poetry, Spirit

"Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production."

Joseph Brodsky, American Poet

Poetry, Life, Production

"My soul is wrapped in harsh repose,Midnight descends in raven-colored clothes,But soft... behold!A sunlight beamButting a swath of glimmering gleam.My heart expands,'tis grown a bulge in it,Inspired by your beauty...Effulgent."

Joss Whedon, American Writer

Poetry, Soul, Beauty, Inspirational

"The Spring I seek is in a new face only."

Allen Tate, American Poet

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Explore more quotes by Johann G. Hamann

"If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times."

Word

"Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it."

Belief

"A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow."

Being

"Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a dessert, a sumptuous dessert."

Freedom

"Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it."

Spirit

"Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas."

Nature

"All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward."

Wisdom

"Everything the human being heard from the beginning, saw with its eyes, looked upon and touched with its hands was a living word; for God was the word."

God

"The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated."

Nature

"Indeed, if a chief question does remain: how is the power to think possible? - The power to think right and left, before and without, with and above experience? then it does not take a deduction to prove the genealogical priority of language."

Power