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"The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart."

Ryszard Kapuscinski on Poetry

More quotes about Poetry

• "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 Ryszard Kapuscinski

• "He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel."

• "Amin knew that neither West nor East would criticize him for fear that he would support the other side. He felt he was untouchable and he said so openly."

• "Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people's only source of knowledge about the world."

• "The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart."

• "Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands."