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Letter "P" » poetry
«Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.»
Author: James Branch Cabell
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Poetry
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Against the man, poetry, rebellion, Rebellions, the rebellion
«Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Poet)
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Poetry
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distorted, distorting, mirror, poetry
«Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.»
«Poetry: the best words in the best order»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
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Poetry
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in good order, order, poetry, well-ordered
«Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech»
«Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.»
«Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.»
Author: William Blake
(Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet)
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destroyed, fetter, fettered, fetters, flourish, flourished, human race, in fetters, nations, painting, poetry, proportion, race
«Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
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Poetry
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expresses, finer, history, particular, Particulars, philosophical, poetry, universal, Universals
«Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen»
«Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.»
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