Poetry Quotes
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I began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry.
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I used to say to my auntie, 'You throw my fu*kin' poetry out, and you'll regret it when I'm famous,' and she threw the bast*rd stuff out. I never forgave her for not treating me like a fu*kin' genius or whatever I was when I was a child.
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Poetry is a popular genre in Afghanistan. If you turned on the radio, there would be a poetry program that would be as popular as The Real Housewives.
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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.
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Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.
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Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.
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Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it.
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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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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.
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I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.
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If Rilke cut himself shaving, he would bleed poetry.
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For though, in nature, depth and height Are equally held infinite: In poetry, the height we know; 'Tis only infinite below.
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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In poetry you can leave out everything but the truth.
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Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of 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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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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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?
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And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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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 -
All think what other people think; All know the man their neighbor knows. Lord, what would they say Did their Catullus walk that way?
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Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.
