"At seventeen I tried to write poetry confining myself solely to Anglo-Saxon words - don't know if it helped, but it made me more concrete ..."

Poetry, Language, Expression, Creativity

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"At seventeen I tried to write poetry confining myself solely to Anglo-Saxon words - don't know if it helped, but it made me more concrete ..."

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"You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry canonizes that yearning for the growth of others."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American 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

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"Old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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"Five syllables," Apollo said, counting them on his fingers. "That would be real bad."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"Amore is loveconfessed to you in haiku.Do you love me too?"

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming."

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"It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish."

Charles Baudelaire, French Poet

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"But you - women like you are dangerous- ominous " take care, Love " men will first fear you, then later, turn you into a deity..."

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"True love is an irrevocable act - you can only give your heart away once - after that, you give as much as you have left ..."

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"People quote proverbs without realizing they're really in awe of the authority of their truth and the power of their expression..."

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"...and not out of fear or loneliness, but only to find myself again... for we have come too far my Life, to turn back now..."

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"Is worship too strong a word? yes, I worship you - to worship is to give worth to something " isn't that what love is all about?..."

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