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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There was movement at the station, for the word had passed around. That the colt from Old Regret had got away.
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There is something in Poetry beyond Prose-reason; there are Mysteries in it not to be explained, but admired.
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I've always had an affinity for writers who have a poetry background, so I always liked Tennessee Williams.
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Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.
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Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith.
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Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
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I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.
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One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
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Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
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If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
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In the long revolt against inherited forms that has by now become the narrative of 20th-century poetry in English, no poet was more flamboyant or more recognizable in his iconoclasm than Cummings.
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I write poetry on my iPhone. I've got about 100 poems on there.
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Back then, I was an acoustically-oriented artist. Honestly, 'Poetry Man' wouldn't have been my first choice.
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Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.
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Who wants to understand the poemMust go to the land of poetry;Who wishes to understand the poetMust go to the poet's land.
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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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Religion is hard work. Its insights are not self-evident and have to be cultivated in the same way as an appreciation of art, music, or poetry must be developed.
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I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.
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I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother's papers were destroyed. I'd written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then.
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Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is, and he would have done other things but that he died young.
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It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry.
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I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it.
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I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.
