Famous Quotes: Poetry

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.
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Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays.
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Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.
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Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.
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Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
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Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.
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Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them.
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What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.
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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
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You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry,' or 'Movies,' or 'Physics.' If you watch it now, though, there'll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions.
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I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.
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Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.
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I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.
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Money is a kind of poetry.
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You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.
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I guess the two Manifesto, Communicating Vessels, Mad Love, and some of his poetry made a significant mark on me but as far as bringing a literary element into the music I see it as a much broader assimilation.
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If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up. But poetry is a really strong, beautiful form to me, and a lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.
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Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.
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What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.
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