Poetry Quotes
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The length and shape of the poemetto, like the greater Romantic lyric of English poetry, lends itself to retrospection and commentary.
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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 is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings.
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When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.
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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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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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If Rilke cut himself shaving, he would bleed poetry.
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What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart?
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Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so.
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I love contemporary poetry because it moves between what we call poetry and what we call philosophy. It joins these fields and makes writing more natural, as in how it is lived in the person. We don’t separate thinking from feeling in real life, so why should we separate it in writing?
Etel Adnan -
I used to write stories and poetry, but for some reason I have it in my head that if I'm going to write, I have to write a script.
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Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich.
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In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.
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Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.
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Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion.
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Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral. Its transmission today is still in part oral, because we become acquainted with poetry through nursery rhymes, which we hear before we can read.
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When you speak a new language you must see if you can translate all of the poetry of your old language into the new one.
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Poetry stands or falls by its music.
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I saw the Village as a place you could escape to, to express yourself. When I first went there, I wrote and performed poetry. Then I drew portraits for a couple of years. It took a while before I thought about picking up a guitar.
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With lyrics for me, it's usually musically-based. It's not really poetry- or writer-based. It's rock-based. It doesn't mean that I'm aping rock lyrics, but I'm writing from a music standpoint. I'm thinking more of music heroes, if they're in my mind. Not William Blake or John Ashbury. Sometimes maybe I thought of him a little bit. Or Wallace Stevens. I don't even really fully understand either of them.
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I pulled a book by Robinson Jeffers off the shelf one day. It was powerfully moving. Tears ran down my face. That's when I became a poet.
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Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.
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They snatched that from me which I still held. They vied with each other in reading poetry to me in sheltered corners. They hung on my words, and laughed appreciatively every time I opened my mouth—sometimes even before I had opened it, which is conduct that easily dries up the springs of conversation. Such young men do exist, and it is a pity, because they are so bad for the older women, who give heed to their flutings at their own peril. I daresay they would have been bad for me too if I had taken them seriously, but I wasn’t quite old enough to do that, and my sole reaction to their devotion was that I was irked.
