11) 16351. Dickens, Charles. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 16351 QUOTATION: Poetry s unnat ral; no man ever talked poetry cept a beadle on boxin day, or Warren s blackin or Rowland s oil, or some o them low fellows;...
12) 48474. Schlegel, Friedrich Von. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 48474 QUOTATION: Poetry can be criticized only through poetry. A critique which itself is not a work of art, either in content as representation of the necessary...
13) 6182. Beckett, Samuel. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 6182 QUOTATION: Poetry is essentially the antithesis of Metaphysics: Metaphysics purge the mind of the senses and cultivate the disembodiment of the spiritual;...
14) 16352. Dickens, Charles. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 16352 QUOTATION: Poetry s unnat ral; no man ever talked poetry cept a beadle on boxin day, or Warren s blackin or Rowland s oil, or some o them low fellows;...
15) 16634. Diderot, Denis. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 16634 QUOTATION: Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. ATTRIBUTION: Denis Diderot (1713–1784), French philosopher. repr. In Selected...
16) 4016. Arendt, Hannah. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 4016 QUOTATION: Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest...
17) 33420. Kumin, Maxine. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 33420 QUOTATION: Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying. ATTRIBUTION: Maxine Kumin (b. 1925), U.S. poet. Lines Written in the...
18) 36803. Lorde, Audre. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 36803 QUOTATION: 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...
19) 16139. Deutsch, Babette. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 16139 QUOTATION: Poetry is important. No less than science, it seeks a hold upon reality, and the closeness of its approach is the test of its success. ATTRIBUTION:...
20) 23753. Frost, Robert. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER: 23753 QUOTATION: Poetry is what is lost in translation. ATTRIBUTION: Robert Frost (1874–1963), U.S. poet. Quoted in Robert Frost: a Backward Look, ch. 1,...
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