Famous Quotes: Poetry

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.
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Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction.
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Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.
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Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it.
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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.
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The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.
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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 is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.
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Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.
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Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.
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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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I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died, and I realized that people sort of think and talk about her style and fashion, but in fact, what made her the person she was was really her love of reading and ideas.
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There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
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American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.
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Poetry and prayer are very similar.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.
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I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.
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