Poetry Quotes
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I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.
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Logic, like lyrical poetry, is no employment for the middle-aged,
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Without poetry, stories would be told in sepia.
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I went to school in California, at Stanford when I was seventeen, and I lived in San Francisco until I was twenty-three, and then I lived in Hungary for, like, a summer, and then I went to Iowa for three years. At Iowa, I actually did the fiction program, not poetry. I was a fiction writer for a long time before I was 'out' as a poet.
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Janice Gould is one of our best poets. The music of her poetry will delight you, and her gentle courageous accounts of tribal, family, and personal history make this book unforgettable. Doubters and Dreamers is a master-piece.
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A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.
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I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry.
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History, at least in its ideal state of perfection, is a compound of poetry and philosophy.
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At the age of seventeen, I left school. I went to university, and I wrote my first attempts at poetry in a room in a flat at the edge of the city.
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Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.
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'The Dante Club' was one of America's most important book clubs, as their Wednesday night meetings ultimately led to our country's first exposure to Dante's poetry on a wide scale.
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Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
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Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
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I have epiphanies all the time, because I'm always thinking. I'm a thinker. I'm always writing poetry, I'm always coming to conclusions.
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I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.
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While some mothers sing lullabies to their children, my mother read me poetry. And to this day, I associate my strongest and most insistent feelings with words lyrically organized on a page.
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Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career.
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I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader... I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even in my early 30s, I would write for my wife Janice... mainly for my poet friends and my wife, who was very smart about poetry.
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Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
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Slogan-making is not poetry.
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The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.
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Poetry is composing for the breath.
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The idea is to make the script out of a political analysis and then to convey that - sometimes in poetry, sometimes science, sometimes all it takes is a film. The film itself is less and less spectacular because I think very strongly now the more spectacular you are, the more you are absorbed by the things you are trying to destroy.
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I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.
