Archive for the ‘Poetry’ Category

Gustave Flaubert on Poetry

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

- Gustave Flaubert

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Jean Cocteau on Poetry

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

- Jean Cocteau

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Dennis Gabor on Poetry

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

- Dennis Gabor

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Alfred de Musset on Poetry

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

- Alfred de Musset

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Novalis on Poetry

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

- Novalis

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John Keats on Poetry

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

Poetry should… should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

- John Keats

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Alfred de Musset on Poetry

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

- Alfred de Musset

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Jean Cocteau on Poetry

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

- Jean Cocteau

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Leonard Cohen on Poetry

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

- Leonard Cohen

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Salman Rushdie on Poetry

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

A poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

- Salman Rushdie

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