"My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity."

Poetry, War, Pity

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"My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity."

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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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"I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem are very important to me."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

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"One could do worse than be a swinger of birches."

Robert Frost, American Poet

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"Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

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"Will the veiled sister pray for Those who walk in darkness, who chose thee and oppose thee, Those who are torn on the horn between season and season, time and time, between Hour and hour, word and word, power and power, those who wait In darkness? Will the veiled sister pray For children at the gate Who will not go away and cannot pray: Pray for those who chose and oppose."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

Poetry, Prayer, Darkness, Choice, Hope

"The words of the true poems give you more than poems, they give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war, peace, behavior, histories, essays, daily life, & everything else, they balance the ranks, colors, races, creeds, and the sexes, they do not seek beauty, they are sought, forever touching them or close upon them follows beauty, longing, fain, love-sick. They prepare for death, yet they are not the finish, but rather the outset, they bring none of his or her terminus or to be content & full, whom they take they take into space to behold the birth of the stars, to learn one of the meanings, to launch off with absolute faith, to sweep through the ceaseless rings & never be quiet again."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

Poetry, Inspirational, Art, Life

"Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door;Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shoreWhere neither piping bird nor peeping dawnDisturbs the eternal sleep,But in the stillness far withdrawnOur dreamless rest for evermore we keep."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want."

Want

"Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose."

Ambition

"I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness."

Reading

"A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet put forth a fresh outlay of stuff at the same season."

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"Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both."

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"I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law."

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"I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's."

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"Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War."

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"After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve."

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