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Poetry
«That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous»
«Some people have the time but they don't have time while others have time but do not have the time.»
«Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Children,
Poetry
| Keywords:
hereditary, heroic, lends, opens
«Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| About:
Jobs,
Literature,
Poetry
| Keywords:
commonplace, freshness, originally, polish
«Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice»
«Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| About:
Poetry
| Keywords:
lays, off the record, surround, torpor, unveil, unveiled, unveils
«There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.»
Author: John Updike
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Poetry
| Keywords:
bring off, crystallization, middle-aged man, The Young Man