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Here are the quotes with the word poetry in them. Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry. — Jean Paul Sartre At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music. — Satyajit Ray In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose. — Richard M.Nixon

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Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

-Jean Paul Sartre

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At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.

-Satyajit Ray

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In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

-Richard M.Nixon

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When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

-Denis Diderot

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Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.

-Aung San Suu Kyi

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Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.

-Terry Eagleton

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The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.

-Robert Morgan

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An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

-Raymond Chandler

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I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.

-Rita Dove

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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.

-Lascelles Abercrombie

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A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel.

-Chaim Potok

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You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry,' or 'Movies,' or 'Physics.' If you watch it now, though, there'll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions.

-Ken Jennings

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It's necessary to start most work alone. But I'm tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether it's borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate.

-Jenny Holzer

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I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important.

-John F. Kerry

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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

-Lord Byron

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Poetry is not only dream and vision it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

-Audre Lorde

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Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.

-Goldwin Smith

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I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.

-Michael Graves

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

-Edmund Burke

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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

-Samuel Johnson

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Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

-Horace Walpole

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Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

-Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

-W.H.Auden

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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

-Edward Koch

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Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry. — Jean Paul Sartre
At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music. — Satyajit Ray
In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose. — Richard M.Nixon

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