Poetry Quotes
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Whether we call it sacrifice, or poetry, or adventure, it is always the same voice that calls.
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No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.
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When you realize my best selling books are 'Owl Moon,' the 'How Do Dinosaur' books, and 'Devil's Arithmetic,' how can the public make sense of that! I have fans who think I only write picture books or only write SF and fantasy. I have fanatics of my poetry and are stunned to find out I write prose, too!
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I'm moving to Rio permanently with my family. It's one of the places left in the world where people still live with a big charge of poetry on a daily basis. I feel we've kind of lost that here in Europe.
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It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny.
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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 must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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Elaine Equi has been publishing her observant, often playful poetry for some 30 years, extending and deepening the range of her intrinsically wry voice.
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In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.
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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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Winter's notion of poetry is tragedy. It knows nothing of comedy. Its laughter was frozen on its lips long ago.
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Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame. Take the moral law and make a nave of it And from the nave build haunted heaven. Thus, The conscience is converted into palms, Like windy citherns hankering for hymns.
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I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable.
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My verses are my diary. My poetry is a poetry of proper names.
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The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.
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Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.
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The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.
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For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.
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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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So few people read poetry. That's sad, isn't it?
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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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I accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera. Each film I make is kind of a return to poetry for me, or at least an attempt to create a poem.
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Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.
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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.
