Poetry Quotes
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My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.
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History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.
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Our family are an alternate stratification of poetry and mathematics.
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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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But I have seen my obstacles: trivialities, learning and poetry. This last needs explaining: the old artist's readiness to dissolve characters into a haze. Characters cannot come alive and fight and guide the world unless the novelist wants them to remain characters.
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Poetry can be written only because it has been written.
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You're in high school, and you're telling your friends that you're skipping lunch to go write poetry, and they were all questioning my sexuality.
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I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation.
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In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.
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Sometimes the beauty is easy.Sometimes you don't have to try at all.Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake.Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.
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As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.
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This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say. I don't plan it. When I'm outside the saying of it, I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.
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When I became poet laureate, I was in a slightly uncomfortable position because I think a lot of poetry isn't worth reading.
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The language of the Catholic Church - the liturgy, the prayer, the gospels - was in many ways my first poetry.
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I wrote a lot of poetry when I was a teenager - mostly desperate love poetry!
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Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such.
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Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.
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Poetry is not Irish or any other nationality; and when writers such as Messrs. Clarke, Farren and the late F. R. Higgins pursue Irishness as a poetic end, they are merely exploiting incidental local colour.
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Be aroused by poetry; structure yourself with propriety, refine yourself with music.
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'Then one can't make a living out of poetry?''Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes.'
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Poetry is a purging of the world's poverty and change and evil and death. It is a present perfecting, a satisfaction in the irremediable poverty of life.
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Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images. Memories of the outside world will never have the same tonality as those of home and, by recalling these memories, we add to our store of dreams; we are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
