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Quotations by Subject: Poetry (26 quotes)

Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

This poem will never reach its destination.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.: Beilby Porteus, Death, A Poem

Results from Poor Man's College:

Man may be considered as a superior species of animal who produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives.: Hippilyte Taine
It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry.: L. Schefer
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.: Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915)
To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest.: Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)
No good poem, however confessional is may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?: Robert Cecil Day Lewis
Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)

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