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The 10 best poetry quotes

1.) ”If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.”. John F. Kennedy
2.) ”Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen.”. Leonardo da Vinci
3.) ”Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it. ”. Vincent Van Gogh
4.) ”What's Bagism? It's like... a tag for what we all do, we're all in a bag ya know, and we realised that we came from two bags, I was in this pop bag going round and round in my little clique, and she was in her little avant-garde clique going round and round, and you're in your little tele clique and they're in their...ya know? and we all sort of come out and look at each other every now and then, but we don't communicate. And we all intellectualise about how there is no barrier between art, music, poetry... but we're still all "I'm a rock and roller, he's a poet" ... so we just came up with the word so you would ask us what bagism is, and we'd say "WE'RE ALL IN A BAG BABY!"”. John Lennon
5.) ”Every age has its own ; in every age the circumstances ofchoose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.”. Jean Paul Sartre
6.) ”Incompossible, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, but not enough for both — as 's poetry and God's mercy to man.”. Ambrose Bierce
7.) ”The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.”. George Bernard Shaw
8.) ”is finer and morethan ; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”. Aristotle
9.) ”Poetry must be new as foam, and as old as the rock.”. Ralph Waldo Emerson
10.) ”I used to worship the mighty genius of— that man who was great in poetry, painting, sculpture, architecture — great in every thing he undertook. But I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast — for luncheon — for dinner — for tea — for supper — for between meals. I like a change, occasionally.”. Mark Twain

These are the 10 best poetry Quotes!