Famous Quotes: Poetry

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.
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Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.
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I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that.
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Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
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Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.
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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice.
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Poetry must be made by all and not by one.
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Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.
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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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Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.
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I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.
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The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.
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All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
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Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care; that's what poetry is supposed to do.
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I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Deep songs don't come from the surface; they come from the deep down. The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart.
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Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
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The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or 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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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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