Famous Quotes: Poetry

For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.
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I think it was T.S. Eliot who talked about good poetry being felt before it's understood. I believe that. There are some bands where I love their lyrics but I don't have a clue what they're on about.
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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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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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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
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Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.
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There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply.
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I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.
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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
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Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.
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I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose.
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Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.
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It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal.
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What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.
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We simply have not kept in touch with poetry.
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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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Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way.
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As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.
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Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.
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Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.
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