Poetry Quotes
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American poetry is a mess. Long live American 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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Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
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I am a patriot, but I must say that English poetry is the richest in the world.
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I was just reading some poetry, and it talked about how things start as one thing and change into another, and I just thought, what a great concept for a song.
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If I could get that girl [Courtney Love] to publish her poetry, the world would change.
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We must never underestimate our power to be wrong when talking about God, when thinking about God, when imagining God, whether in prose or in poetry. A generous orthodoxy, in contrast to the tense, narrow, or controlling orthodoxies of so much of Christian history, doesn't take itself too seriously. It is humble. It doesn't claim too much. It admits it walks with a limp.
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What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.
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News isn't designed to talk about daily life in its nuances, but poetry is.
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It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.
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Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.
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Although I was able to study music with teachers, I never studied lyric writing. I read poetry, and I read other lyricists. But they were never writing in the style or the form that I was interested in.
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Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day, or Warren's blackin' or Rowland's oil, or some o' them low fellows; never you let yourself down to talk poetry, my boy.
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Poetry is the only hope.Even if you do not believe it, you have to do it.
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They see poetry in what I have done. No. I apply my methods, and that is all there is to it.
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What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.
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Poetry is such an ancient art, and I consider myself young within that art.
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I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs.
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Poetry was the maiden I loved, but politics was the harridan I married.
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I think it's often assumed that the role of poetry is to comfort, but for me, poetry is the great unsettler. It questions the established order of the mind. It is radical, by which I don't mean that it is either leftwing or rightwing, but that it works at the roots of thinking.
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Habit has a kind of poetry.
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I didn't start writing songs, honestly, until I started making my album. I was always doing poetry, but I never thought I could write songs. I discouraged myself and thought it was so hard. But starting this process and learning just what it is to be a songwriter and performer taught me that you don't have to feel discouraged about anything.
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somewhere within sight of the tree of poetry that is eternity wearing the green leaves of time .
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What happens on the football field matters, not in the way that food matters but as poetry does to some people and alcohol does to others: it engages the personality.
