Posted by: Elisabetta Cipolli
Poetry is magnesium deficiency.
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In 2025 World Poetry Day will be friday 21 march.
Poetry is magnesium deficiency.
Poetry is the poetics of he who writes it and makes it fly in the mind of those who read it.
If you were born with the weakness to fall
you were born with the strength to rise.
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality in a statesman.
Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests.
A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.
I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.
Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.