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Poetry Books

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

Category: Poetry

Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

Category: Poetry

Author: Christopher Fry

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

Category: Poetry

Author: Salvador Dali

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Category: Poetry

Author: Paul Valery

There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.

Category: Poetry

Author: Lafcadio Hearn

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.

Category: Poetry

Author: Charles Baudelaire

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.

Category: Poetry

Author: Charles Baudelaire

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Category: Poetry

Author: Novalis

Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.

Category: Poetry

Author: Jean Cocteau

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

Category: Poetry

Author: Dennis Gabor

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The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.

Author: Charles Reade
Category: Absence

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