Poetry Quotes
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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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Most of my poetry lies beyond the SF field, yet here I am corralled into 'SF poetry' as part of this poetry weekend. Of course, some might say, 'you've made your own bed - now you must lie in it!' But, while fully accepting that dictum, I'm not yet quite prepared to lie down...
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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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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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Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.
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Poetry arises from the desire to get beyond the finite and the historical - the human world of violence and difference - and to reach the transcendent or divine. You’re moved to write a poem… But as soon as you move from that impulse to the actual poem, the song of the infinite is compromised by the finitude of its terms. In a dream your verses can defeat time, your words can shake off the history of their usage, you can represent what can’t be represented, but when you wake, when you rejoin your friends around the fire, you’re back in the human world with its inflexible laws and logic.
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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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Poetry is when you talk to yourself.
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Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn’t know what else to be.
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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.
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The fatal problem with poetry: poems.
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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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In literature, questions of fact or truth are subordinated to the primary literary aims of producing a structure of words for its own sake, and the sign-values of symbols are subordinated to their importance as a structure of interconnected motifs.
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Poetry teaches us how to live in a world in which none of us belongs.
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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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The essence of poetry is will and passion.
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Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.
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Memory exercised in a particular way is a natural gift of poetic genius. The poet above all else, is a person who never forgets certain sense impressions which he has experienced and which he can relive again as though with all their original freshness.
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Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.
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I think most good poetry is about suffering; I think that's what underlies the love in these landays pieces - suffering and longing.
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In poetry you can leave out everything but the truth.
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The Canadian people are more practical than imaginative. Romantic tales and poetry would meet with less favour in their eyes than a good political article from their newspapers.
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Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence.
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If you want to change the world's spirit, I will suggest that only poetry can do this.
