Antonio Machado Quotes
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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
Ed Westwick -
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
Edgar Allan Poe -
I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.
Gabrielle Aplin -
For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.
Vikram Seth -
I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.
Natasha Trethewey
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If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.
Wallace Stevens -
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.
Pablo Neruda -
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.
Randall Jarrell -
I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.
Manuel Puig -
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Oscar Wilde -
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.
Kate Thompson
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Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere.
Caitriona Balfe -
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 -
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 -
I love the simple poetry of theater, where you can stand in a spotlight on a stage and wrap a coat around you, and say, 'It was 1860 and it was winter...'
Gary Oldman -
One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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But for me, being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most.
Peter Davison -
Listeners are kind of ambushed... if a poem just happens to be said when they're listening to the radio. The listener doesn't have time to deploy what I call their 'poetry deflector shields' that were installed in high school - there's little time to resist the poem.
Billy Collins -
I can put my legs behind my head. That's a fun fact that not a lot of people know!
Yvonne Strahovski -
You might say that I'm the Michelangelo of the dress business.
Oleg Cassini -
I'm very lucky, I had a very amicable separation and very amicable divorce, but it was still horrendous.
Ben Miller -
In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.
Antonio Machado