Famous Quotes: Poetry

On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton.
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I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality.
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My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding.
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We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.
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Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
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Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.
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There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.
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Well - I started writing - probably in the early 60s and by say '65-'66 I had read most of the poetry that had been published - certainly in the 20 years prior to that.
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I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents, events, preoccupations; and to spend a great deal of time going to schools trying to demystify poetry.
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I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that.
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The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
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If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield.
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The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
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I write poetry in order to live more fully.
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The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.
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A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.
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Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.
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I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.
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Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.
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I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.
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