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“Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.”
Joshua Logan
“Poetry lies its way to the truth.”
John Ciardi
“Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.”
James Joyce
“Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking”
John Wain
“Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.”
Thomas Gray
“Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.”
William Blake
“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen”
Leonardo da Vinci
“The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.”
Johnny Depp
“Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
“He does not write at all whose poems no man reads”
Marcus Aurelius
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