71) 55519. Stein, Gertrude. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 55519 QUOTATION: Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen. ATTRIBUTION: Gertrude Stein (1874–1946), U.S. author. (Written 1927). Duchesse de...
72) 60409. Thoreau, Henry David. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 60409 QUOTATION: Poetry is the only life got, the only work done, the only pure product and free labor of man, performed only when he has put all the world...
73) 48592. Schlegel, Friedrich Von. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 48592 QUOTATION: Without poetry, religion becomes obscure, false, and malignant; without philosophy, licentious in all wantonness, and lascivious to the point...
74) 39200. Mencken, H.L. (Henry Lewis). The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 39200 QUOTATION: Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince. ATTRIBUTION: H.L. (Henry Lewis) Mencken (1880–1956), U.S. journalist,...
75) 40424. Montaigne, Michel de. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 40424 QUOTATION: Poetry reproduces an indefinable mood that is more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting, as...
76) 19003. Eliot, T.S. (Thomas Stearns). The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 19003 QUOTATION: 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....
77) 46242. Reynolds, Sir Joshua. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 46242 QUOTATION: Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended, and...
78) 19548. Emerson, Ralph Waldo. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 19548 QUOTATION: Only poetry inspires poetry. ATTRIBUTION: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. Books, Society and Solitude...
79) 48562. Schlegel, Friedrich Von. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 48562 QUOTATION: Since poetry is infinitely valuable, I do not understand why it should be more valuable than this or that which is also infinitely valuable....
80) 43064. Ortega Y Gasset, José. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 43064 QUOTATION: Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved. ATTRIBUTION: José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955), Spanish essayist, philosopher. repr....
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