Famous Quotes: Poetry

When you're going through something, whether it's a wonderful thing like having a child or a sad thing like losing somebody, you often feel like 'Oh my God, I'm so overwhelmed; I'm dealing with this huge thing on my own.' In fact, poetry's a nice reminder that, no, everybody goes through it. These are universal experiences.
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Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.
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Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew.
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There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.
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The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.
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I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.
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"Therefore" is a word the poet must not know.
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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
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And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.
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Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.
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Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.
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The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.
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Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.
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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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Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms and the latter longer ones, gut this is only in part true.
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I was trained as an actress. But I wasn't a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up.
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A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel.
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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
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Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.
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Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived... Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos.
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