Jose Marti Quotes
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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
Ed Westwick
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Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.
Joanne Rowling
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
Edgar Allan Poe
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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.
Felix Dennis
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.
Natasha Trethewey
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Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birkenstocks, compost everything, and write poetry by candlelight.
Nancy Lublin
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Poetry is the deification of reality.
Edith Sitwell
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Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it's poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple.
Taylor Swift
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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.
T. S. Eliot
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Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.
Orson F. Whitney
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If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere.
Caitriona Balfe
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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.
Vikram Seth
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I was trying to pay the bills with poems, and it was easy to memorize my poems, because I'd be riding my bike in California trying to memorize them before going on stage at a poetry lounge.
Omari Hardwick
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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.
Carl Sandburg
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Poetry's a thing that belongs to everyone.
Natasha Trethewey
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How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.
John Lennon The Beatles
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I am proud to be in Los Angeles. I have a lot of fans that love me here. When you talk about the Meccas of boxing - Las Vegas, New York - now you have to talk about Los Angeles.
Lennox Lewis
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He who never says "no" is no true man.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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I'm always feeling excruciatingly embarrassed after a concert; it's such an unnatural thing to do. On one hand, it's so unnatural to step in front of so many people and try to do something like I do, but on the other hand, it can be such a fantastic boon and such a wonderful ride.
Antony Hegarty Antony and the Johnsons
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You have to decide what is extraneous and what is central. There is always more to tell. If you want to have a finished product, at some point you have to say "enough."
Adele Logan Alexander
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A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.
Jose Marti