Poetry Quotes
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You have to be careful about over-politicizing the utterances of people of colour because, oftentimes, there's poetry that seeks to go beyond that narrative.
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Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.
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While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.
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Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.
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There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope.
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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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A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
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Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.
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Because people are very interested in my poetry, in what I say.
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You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry.
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Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where the poetry comes from. The most important things are to respect the language; to know the classical rules, even if only to break them; and to be prepared to edit, to revise, to shape.
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I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable.
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So few people read poetry. That's sad, isn't it?
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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In writing, I want to be remembered for telling good stories in beautiful and powerful language, using the poetry of words to reflect the thematic concerns of compelling stories.
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Ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter.
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When trying to explain anything, I usually find that the Bible, that great collection of magnificent and varied poetry, has said it before in the best possible way.
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Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.
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None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
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Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.
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Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
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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...'
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Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.
