Quote by Thomas Hardy
Poetry is emotion put into measure. - Thomas Hardy

Poetry is emotion put into measure. – Thomas Hardy

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Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity. – Thomas Hardy

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Obscurity
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It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. – Thomas Hardy

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Men
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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them. – Thomas Hardy

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Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew. – Seamus Heaney

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High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this. – Diane Wakoski

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What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic – this is by no means the same thing. – Fernand Leger

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Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative. – Adrian Mitchell

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