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Poetry

«I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.»
«If creating life is art, then living and dying must be poetry.»
«I am large, I contain multitudes.»
«He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to it in a speech.»
Author: John Colville | About: Poetry, Speech | Keywords: fertilize, fertilized, fertilizes
«If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?»
Author: Joyce Carol Oates (Author) | About: Food, Poetry
«Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.»
Author: Stephen Spender | About: Poetry | Keywords: straining
«If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.»
Author: Emily Dickinson (Poet) | About: Poetry | Keywords: head off, physically, top
«If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.»
Author: Emily Dickinson (Poet) | About: Body, Books, Poetry, Reading, Writing | Keywords: cold, Cold Fire, warm
«He does not write at all whose poems no man reads»
Author: Marcus Aurelius | About: Poetry, Reading, Writing | Keywords: poems, reads
«He who will have no judge but himself condemns himself»
Author: Proverb | About: Judgement, Poetry | Keywords: condemns

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