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"Love is the poetry of the senses."
More quotes about Poetry
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"All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling."
Oscar Wilde on Poetry -
"A poet can survive everything but a misprint."
Oscar Wilde on Poetry -
"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things."
T. S. Eliot on Poetry -
"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."
Robert Frost on Poetry -
"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."
Robert Frost on Poetry
More quotes by Honore de Balzac
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"Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty."
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"One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul."
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"If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye."
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"Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless."
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"The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute."