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Quotations by Subject: Love (162 quotes)

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A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.: James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.: George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "1984", first sentence
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
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But all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It is directly, that is, of the senses, and since the senses do not exist without an object for their employment all art is necessarily objective. It doesn't declaim or explain, it presents.: William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963)
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.: Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)
Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more.: Terry Pratchett, Pyramids
I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.: T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.: T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965), "Tradition and the Individual Talent", II (The Sacred Wood, 1922)
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.: Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)

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