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«Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.»
Author: A. E. Housman
(Poet, Scholar)
| About:
Poetry
| Keywords:
almost, draw, extinguish, extinguishes, extinguishing, inadvisable, meaning, perfect, poetry, understanding, usually
«Good prose is the selection of the best words; poetry is the best words in the best order; and journalese is any old words in any old order»
Author: Alan Brewer
| About:
Newspapers,
Poetry
| Keywords:
any old, journalese, prose, well-ordered
«Good poetry .. makes the universe .. reveal its .. 'secret'»
«For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.»
Author: Robert Penn Warren
| About:
Autobiography,
Poetry,
Understanding
| Keywords:
hazardous, poem
«Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.»
Author: Gustave Flaubert
(Novelist)
| About:
Inventions,
Poetry
| Keywords:
geometry, invents, perfectly, precise
«For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain [and] the noise of battle. [It] has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.»
«From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics, compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness, in which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbor, and to love your neighbor's wife»
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
(Historian)
| About:
Poetry
| Keywords:
Byron, Commandments, compounded, Drew, Lord Byron, misanthropy, voluptuousness
«Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.»
«Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Communication,
Poetry
| Keywords:
communicate, genuine, understood
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