"The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry."

Poetry, Prose

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"The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry."

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"This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul."

Eugenio Montale, Italian Poet

Poetry, Soul, Will

"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

"All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears."

Alfred Douglas, English Poet

Poetry, Blood, Tears

"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,

"The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English."

Robert Morgan, American Soldier

Poetry, English

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"Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature."

Nature

"Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather."

Mercury

"In oratory the will must predominate."

Oratory

"Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides."

Adversity

"Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity."

Strength

"Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together."

People

"Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth."

Earth

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"This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul."

"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."

"All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears."

"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."

"The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English."

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"Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature."

"Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather."

"In oratory the will must predominate."

"Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides."

"Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity."

"Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together."

"Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth."

"Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor."

"Children always turn to the light."

"Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail."