Eugenio Montale Quotes
There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry.
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The connection I make with being young and growing up is, like, the feeling of not being crushed by the world. Having an idea, thinking you can do it.
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
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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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Poetry is the deification of reality.
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Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
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I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
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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 still don't know why, exactly, but I do think people can have a spiritual connection to landscape, and I certainly did in Iceland.
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I enjoy listening to contemporary rock on the college stations while I'm taking long walks, love gospel and soul music, am fascinated by hip-hop and rap as the new kind of urban 'beat' poetry and, come to think of it, find something interesting about just any kind of music.
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I'm a big believer in our connection to nature.
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Trust is the most important part of a relationship, closely followed by communication. I think that if you have those two things, everything else falls into place - your affection, your emotional connection.
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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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No verse is free for the man who wants to do a good job....Poetry..remains one person talking to another....no poet can write a poem of amplitude unless he is the master of the prosaic.
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Trying to make a living from poetry is like putting chains on butterfly wings.
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Romantic poetry … recognizes as its first commandment that the will of the poet can tolerate no law above itself.
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Dimensionless constants in the laws of nature, which from the purely logical point of view can just as well have different values, should not exist.
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I have a band called M&O. We were working on our first album in 2011 or 2012. We were looking for people to collaborate with, and I met Chance through a Young Chicago Authors poetry slam.
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I think the first time I really heard poetry was in the schoolyard. Just the little limericks that kids say when they're jumping rope and playing games. I think that's the first time I heard rhyming words - I don't know if I'd call that the definitive poetry, but that's when I heard rhyming words said and not necessarily sung.
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For seven years, I was in this fishbowl with this intensity, with all the stuff that went on with the Mets.
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The U.S.' refusal to acknowledge the plight of displaced Haitians and maintaining inhumane practices of neglect, disrespect, and violence amounts to a gross violation of human rights.
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I have a pleasant voice, but I have no great range. I will say that I know how to make a song come alive and I guess I do have a sincerity that comes across. But I do alot of things better than sing.
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There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry.
