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Why should poetry have to make sense? - Charlie Chaplin

Why should poetry have to make sense? – Charlie Chaplin

Other quotes by Charlie Chaplin

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each others happiness, not by each others misery. – Charlie Chaplin

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Happiness
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Charlie Chaplin
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I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose. – Charlie Chaplin

Category:
Beauty
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Charlie Chaplin
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Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded. – Charlie Chaplin

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great
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Charlie Chaplin
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Other Quotes from
Poetry
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A poets work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep. – Salman Rushdie

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Poetry

Well, I had this little notion – I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it it was my great refuge through adolescence. – Harry Mathews

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Poetry

So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations. – Thomas Lynch

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Poetry

Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented. – Mark Strand

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Poetry

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Were not trying to change the world just music. – Jonathan Davis

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Just as a prism of glass miters light and casts a colored braid, a garden sings sweet incantations the human heart strains to hear. Hiding in every flower, in every leaf, in every twig and bough, are reflections of the God who once walked with us in Eden. – Tonia Triebwasser

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Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do. – W. H. Auden

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Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal. – Thomas Moore, c.1813 song “Come, Ye Disconsolate”

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Broken Hearts