Famous Quotes: Poetry

The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?
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Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!
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Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into 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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A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
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Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.
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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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There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.
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I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that.
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I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.
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God is the perfect poet.
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The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.
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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
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Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.
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Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too.
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Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.
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When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans.
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Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
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I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time.
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