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quotes by topic Poetry

" Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. "

History , Poetry

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Poetry

" With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. "

Edgar Allan Poe

Poetry , Purpose , Passion

" Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. "

Edgar Allan Poe

Poetry , Creation

" All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. "

Edgar Allan Poe

Imagination , Religion , Poetry , Fear , Fraud , Greed

" I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty. "

Edgar Allan Poe

Poetry , Creation

" Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince. "

Poetry , Prose

" I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all. "

Poetry

" It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese "

Poetry , Literature , Europe

" Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms and the latter longer ones, gut this is only in part true "

Difference , Poetry

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