{"quotes":[{"text":"And yet, it is amazing that poetry often touches the heart even though it may not try to teach us anything.","author":"Debasish Mridha","tags":["debasish mridha","debasish mridha md","inspirational","philosophy","poetry","poetry-touches-the-heart","quotes","what-is-poetry"],"id":1692,"author_id":"Debasish+Mridha"},{"text":"A poem often begins in the midst of wonderful wandering thoughts that are eager to open wings to fly in the beautiful blue sky of imagination.","author":"Debasish Mridha","tags":["beautiful sky of imagination","buddha","debasish mridha","debasish mridha md","gandhi","imagination","inspirational","miraboli","oscar-wilde","philosophy","quotes","tagore","what-is-a-poem","what-is-poetry"],"id":75889,"author_id":"Debasish+Mridha"},{"text":"Poetry has its own unique language which every mind translates differently according to their own personal view.","author":"Debasish Mridha","tags":["debasish mridha","debasish mridha md","how to read poetry","inspirational","personal view","philosophy","poetry","quotes","unique-language","what-is-poetry"],"id":140913,"author_id":"Debasish+Mridha"},{"text":"Poetry is the flower of life. It blooms to fill life with her fragrance of inner beauty.","author":"Debasish Mridha","tags":["debasish mridha","debasish mridha md","flower of life","inner beauty","inspirational","philosophy","poetry","quotes","what-is-poetry"],"id":196933,"author_id":"Debasish+Mridha"},{"text":"Like a wildflower, poetry does not need explanation. It only needs to touch our emotions.","author":"Debasish Mridha","tags":["debasish mridha","debasish mridha md","inspirational","philosophy","poetry","poetry-does-not-need-explanation","poetry-touched-our-emotions","quotes","what-is-poetry"],"id":243689,"author_id":"Debasish+Mridha"},{"text":"Poetry is the truth dressed up with perceptions, emotions, and anxieties of expression.","author":"Debasish Mridha","tags":["anxieties of expression","debasish mridha","debasish mridha md","emotions","how to read poetry","inspirational","philosophy","quotes","what-is-poetry"],"id":245030,"author_id":"Debasish+Mridha"},{"text":"We cannot see the best things in life, we can only feel them. A poet tries to describe those indescribable feelings in a language of emotions and inner perceptions.","author":"Debasish Mridha","tags":["best things in life","debasish mridha","debasish mridha md","indescribable feelings","inspirational","language-of-emotions","philosophy","quotes","what-is-a-poet","what-is-poetry"],"id":359961,"author_id":"Debasish+Mridha"},{"text":"Poetry is an art of telling the poet’s own truth my bending and twisting it with his or her own emotional bulldozer.","author":"Debasish Mridha","tags":["a poet s own truth","debasish mridha","debasish mridha md","emotional bulldozer","how to read poetry","inspirational","philosophy","poetry","quotes","what-is-poetry"],"id":365444,"author_id":"Debasish+Mridha"},{"text":"Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat. Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["art","artist","boat","books","bridge","bridge","canoe","connect","connection","creative-writing","creativity","expression","fiction","harmony","island","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kayak","kojouri","letters","lifeboat","limerick","literature","novelist","poem","poet","poetess","poetry","poetry-poem","poetry","rhyme","save","ship","spoken-word","stanza","swim","swimmer","swimming","unity","verse","vessel","water","water-is-life","water","waterfall","what-is-poetry","words","write","writer","writing","writing","written","yacht"],"id":391668,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"A poet is an artist that paints pictures by mixing thought, imagination, and emotion with words.","author":"Debasish Mridha","tags":["debasish mridha","debasish mridha md","emotions and words","inspirational","philosophy","poet","poetry","quotes","what-is-a-poet","what-is-poetry"],"id":433054,"author_id":"Debasish+Mridha"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":11,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}