Poetry Quotes
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I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.
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Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.
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People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.
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Our fictions move us to do great things, things worth doing for no better reason than there's poetry in us. We dream before we do.
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My parents were willing to let me follow my nose, do what I wanted to do, and they supported my interest by buying the books that I wanted for birthdays and Christmas, almost always poetry books.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.
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The voice is raised, and that is where poetry begins. And even today, in the prolonged aftermath of modernism, in places where 'open form' or free verse is the orthodoxy, you will find a memory of that raising of the voice in the term 'heightened speech.'
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He who without the Muse's madness in his soul comes knocking at the door of poesy and thinks that art will make him anything fit to be called a poet, finds that the poetry which he indites in his sober senses is beaten hollow by the poetry of madmen.
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I myself have never called what I write anti-poetry. I also think that my poetry should not be only known as the poetry of Ernesto Cardenal but rather as Nicaraguan poetry.
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Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.
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There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry.
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Poetry is a rhythmical piece of writing that leaves the reader feeling that life is a little richer than before, a little more full of wonder, beauty, or just plain delight.
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Film has its own innate poetry.
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I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.
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The works have to look like they're confident. But they also have to look sort of troubled. It's this weird thing: "Does that look confident and troubled?" It's a bit like difficult poetry.
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He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth.
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People go on quarrelling and fancying this and that, and thinking that the world is full of romance and poetry. When they get married they know better.
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My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding.
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Poetry is when you talk to yourself.
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Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it.
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We are supposed to write poetry to keep the gods alive.
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I really like writing poetry and lyrics because it's one thing where I give up control. I don't feel like I need to be in control of it. I just sort of let it happen, and then I know when it's done. I know when it's finished.
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The fatal problem with poetry: poems.
