#poetry

Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays. ↗

— Patrick White

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A poet can survive everything but a misprint. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written. ↗

— Saul Williams

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I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life. ↗

— Saul Williams

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Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

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Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking. ↗

— Malcolm Wilson

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. ↗

— William Wordsworth

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I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. ↗

— Steven Wright

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There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. ↗

— Edward Young

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