Famous Quotes: Poetry

You don't go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a lot of the work.
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It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I've done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they're always poems first.
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I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.
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We simply have not kept in touch with poetry.
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The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.
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For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.
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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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Poetry is a totally different art than film.
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I still read Donne, particularly his love poems.
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All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
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All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.
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The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.
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Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.
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I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.
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The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.
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There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.
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I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.
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Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.
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But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.
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Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.
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