Poetry Quotes
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I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.
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The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.
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Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
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I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
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For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.
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Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.
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In most of the world, poetry has such a different reputation than it does in Western culture.
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Let all Black Poets die as trumpets, And be buried in the dust of marching feet.
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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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Poetry had everything to teach me about life.
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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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I've never written poetry. I'm not a poet, but I think the nearest you get is either the short story or the novella, in that you can't waste a word. There is no hiding place: everything's got to be seen to relate, and the prose counts.
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In terms of what I write about, I consider no subject too small. Often it's the small moments, that through the amplification of poetry, reveal the larger, more profound truths that we all come to recognize and treasure.
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I used to hold a fiery wind and I tried to determine the direction where poetry would fly.
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Poetry interprets the chaos of human life and tries to bestow meaning on it. Without imagination there could be no poetry; and imagination chained by ideology produces only propaganda.
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However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.
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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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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date . . .
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Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.
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Ask not if poetry is dead, ask how you can live for poetry.
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Poetry is the special medium of spiritual crazy wisdom, the form of expression that comes closest to creating a bridge between words and what is wordless.
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Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.
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Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.
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I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem.
