Poetry Quotes
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I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not.
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With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.
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It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.
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For me, poetry is a form of activism. And that word enables the labelers, and also gives them a rash.
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The next big push in my life is trying to get poetry popular again.
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Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.
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Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.
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Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.
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What Miss Moore’s best poetry does, I can say best in her words: it 'comes into and steadies the soul,' so that the reader feels himself 'a life prisoner, but reconciled.'
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Prose is walking; poetry is flying...
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I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a bad thing. It depends on the ability of the individual poet to do it well, and to make a shape which is interesting enough to hold your attention.
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Romantic poetry … recognizes as its first commandment that the will of the poet can tolerate no law above itself.
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The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?
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Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for the human emotions. If one has a mind which inclines to magic rather than science, one will prefer to speak of these equations as spells or incantations; it sounds more arcane, mysterious, recondite.
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I really liked 'Blk Girl Art.' It's like a manifesto saying why I create, whether it's poetry or music.
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Consciousness is not wholly, nor even primarily a device for receiving sense-impressions. ...there is another outlook than the scientific one, because in practice a more transcendental outlook is almost universally admitted. ...who does not prize these moments that reveal to us the poetry of existence?
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I've been writing songs since I was like six or seven. I've been writing poetry and short stories and stuff, but my first serious, serious song, I wrote when I was fourteen.
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The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.
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Prose talks and poetry sings.
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I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords. That was my original mission.
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I recently read that it's the left brain that does all that calculating, and the right brain that does the poetry. Somehow I've veered way towards the left. I've been doing it for years. Maybe I do art to balance it out.
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Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I'm a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best?
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I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.
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She was the Judy Garland of American poetry.
