"A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote."

Poetry, Autobiography

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"A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote."

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"In the grueling light that passed for day..."

Cormac McCarthy, American Writer

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"Sweet as the tender fragrance that survives,When martyred flowers breathe out their little lives,Sweet as a song that once consoled our pain,But never will be sung to us again,Is they remembrance. Now the hour of restHath come to thee. Sleep, darling: it is best."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

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"It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"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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"She walks in beauty like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies."

Lord Byron, British Poet

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"Each drop that fell, had a story to tell.each smile that curved, said a million words.(Poem: Our Existence, Book: Ginger and Honey)"

Jasleen Kaur Gumber, Indian Writer

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"I've got mixed feelings about poetry cause done well poetry is fantastic. But not many people are capable of doing it well. I think you should have some kind of license to perform poetry. A poetic license perhaps."

Craig Ferguson, Scottish Comedian

Poetry, Creativity, Criticism, Art, Humor

"Hungry for beautiful words, the fox comes rooting around in the hedge, almost too close to the fire. He reads my mind with one glance and is gone. All my poetry is now trotting around the bushes inside him, maybe some day to be partly eaten or left to rot. He understands being alive for as long as he can be, and does not worry about why, or what might happen afterwards."

Jay Woodman, British Motivational Speaker

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"When I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as the poetry of sentences."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

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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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"A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote."

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"Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful."

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"Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics."

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"In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian."

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"I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life."

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"Envy is an insult to oneself."

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"Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy."

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"Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers."

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"Justice is like a train that is nearly always late."

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"Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?"

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