George Chapman Quotes
Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity... but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'...
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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
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I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
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Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.
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I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
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I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.
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Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.
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If I'm feeling desperate, I'll go out image-hunting. I'll go to news agents and stand at the rack flicking through magazines or go to second-hand bookshops. And then, bit by bit, like concrete poetry, I start to realise that I am drawn to particular things, and then I start wondering why that is.
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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
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My first book was an adult novel, 'Down Among the Gods,' published by Virago, and I've written poems as well, a slim volume of poetry.
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I don't think I understand the concept of regret. Because if I regret anything, that would mean, like, I hate myself.
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Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
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Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.
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I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.
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Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. But I think that seeing scenes that you are used to, but with the heightening effects of poetry, perhaps makes you value your life and times more than you might otherwise do.
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Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
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I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who read it will write it.
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I started writing poetry in high school because I wanted desperately to write, but somehow, writing stories didn't appeal to me, and I loved the flow and the feel and sense of poetry, especially that of what one might call formal verse.
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I am fascinated by the engineering. The science of constructing and understanding why it stands. And I am drawn by the madness, the beauty, the theatricality, the poetry and soul of the wire. And you cannot be a wire-walker without mingling those two ways of seeing life.
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If he came to visit our country, I think he would unite us all against him.
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I had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure.
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I know how important it is to, you know, to be my own person.
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Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity... but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'...
