"If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy."

Poetry, Men, Heir, Prophecy

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"If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy."

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"Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it."

Roger McGough, British Poet

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"The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does."

Allen Ginsberg, American Poet

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"Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality."

James Joyce, Irish Novelist

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"The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times."

Robert Morgan, American Soldier

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"I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that."

Robert Morgan, American Soldier

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"Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear."

Helen Dunmore, British Poet

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"You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it."

Sherman Alexie, American Writer

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"We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented."

Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Philosopher

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"I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony."

Mark Strand, American Poet

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"But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events."

Diane Wakoski, American Poet

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Explore more quotes by Muhammad Iqbal

"The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience."

Experience

"Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience."

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"I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay."

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"It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes."

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"Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture."

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"When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry."

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"Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders."

Religion

"Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians."

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"Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy."

Poetry

"Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science."

Religion