Poetry Quotes
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I feel the most natural thing is for music to come that way because it's sort of like poetry. Though I do think with poets that I like, like Charles Olson or Ezra Pound, they were rewriting constantly, until the poem becomes a diamond.But with music I don't really feel that way.
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
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To translate poetry, one has to possess some art, at the very least the art of stylistic re-embodiment.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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I thought of rhyme alone, For rhyme can beat a measure out of trouble And make the daylight sweet once more.
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However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.
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Poetry is unfallen speech. Paradise knew no other, for no other would suffice to answer the need of those ecstatic days of innocence.
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Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.
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If I could get that girl [Courtney Love] to publish her poetry, the world would change.
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You have to understand a bit about the poetry of the blues to know where the references are coming from.
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.
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Experience is the basis of poetry.
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Rap isn't poetry, not least because it involves music and often other elements that aren't words. But the way poets in English use things like rhyme and meter, and the ways these conventions both do and don't apply to rap we try to lay out the rules for rap, in order to understand the techniques that artists like Jay-Z and Kanye employ.
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The media themselves are the avant-garde of our society. Avant-garde no longer exists in painting, music and poetry, it's the media themselves.
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I was reading poetry to my girlfriends, and they were like, 'You're really good. You should go to some poetry readings or something.' And I eventually went and got a, you know, somewhat of a name for myself and a little bit of a following.
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Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.
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I tended to find lines of poetry beautiful only when I encountered them quoted in prose, in the essays my professors had assigned in college, where the line breaks were replaced with slashes, so that what was communicated was less a particular poem than the echo of poetic possibility. Insofar as I was interested in the arts, I was interested in the disconnect between my experience of actual artworks and the claims made on their behalf; the closest I'd come to having a profound experience of art was probably the experience of this distance, a profound experience of the absence of profundity.
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Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.
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There is only one art of writing, and that is the art of poetry..whether it is in the form of prose or in rhyme and meter or in rhymed cadence.
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Actually I'd always thought he sat in the library with a slim volume of metaphysical poetry until the commissioner called him on the bat phone and summoned him into action. Holy paranormal activity, Nightingale - to the Jag mobile.
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With fiction, I tend to get to my desk and start writing. Poetry I write in my head, often while walking, so that my poems have an organic quality, hopefully.
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Americans have been tremendously fortunate in poetry, regarding both the quantity and quality of poetry produced. Unfortunately, it remains in schools and universities; it is not widely distributed.
