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Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future. -- Octavio Paz
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations. -- Horace Walpole
I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks. -- Howard Nemerov
It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are indebted to it, more than they imagine, for the success they may have achieved, even in practical pursuits, and for the enjoyment their lives have afforded them. -- Orson F. Whitney
I wish I'd been better able to resist the sense of obligation to write some of the poems I did. It's in the nature of commissioned work to be written too much from the side of your mind that knows what it's doing, which dries up the poetry. -- Andrew Motion
Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature. -- David Hare
Heroic poetry has ever been esteemed the greatest work of human nature. -- John Dryden
We're nature. Our minds are nature. Our desire to make poetry is nature. -- Alison Hawthorne Deming
Eloquence is heard; poetry is overheard ... All poetry is of the nature of the soliloquy. -- John Stuart Mill
We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual. -- John Muir
...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough? -- Vincent Van Gogh
...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough~? -- Vincent Van Gogh
The city and nature, the built stone and the found stone, concrete and slate, poetry addresses them all democratically. -- Shirley Geok-lin Lim
When science drove the gods out of nature, they took refuge in poetry and the porticos of civic buildings. -- Mason Cooley
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. -- Thomas Hardy
Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools. -- John Barton
For though, in nature, depth and height Are equally held infinite: In poetry, the height we know; 'Tis only infinite below. -- Jonathan Swift
The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject. -- Matthew Arnold
Poetry strengthens that faculty which is the organ of the moral nature of man, in the same manner as exercise strengthens a limb. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets. -- Reginald Horace Blyth
Poetry reminds us of the truths about life and human nature that we knew all along, but forgot somehow because they weren't yet in memorable language. -- Diane Ackerman
Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential. -- Wallace Stevens
It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us. -- John Ruskin
True poetry, like the religious prompting itself, springs from the emotional side of a man's complex nature, and is ever in harmony with his highest intuitions and aspirations. -- Epes Sargent
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars. -- Aristotle
in Italy, almost at every step, history and poetry add to the graces of nature, sweeten the memory of the past, and seem to preserve it in eternal youth. -- Madame de Stael
I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry. -- A. R. Ammons
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. ... [By seeking] logical beauty spiritual formulas are discovered necessary for the deeper penetration into the laws of nature. -- Albert Einstein

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