Famous Quotes: Poetry

The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.
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I still read Donne, particularly his love poems.
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Superstition is the poetry of life.
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I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others; it's for others to use.
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A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.
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I like poems that are little games.
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But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.
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If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul.
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Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.
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Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.
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Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that being called this thing, with the weight of tradition behind it, and with the association of the Royal family, does allow you to have conversations and to open doors, and wallets, for the good of poetry in a way that nothing else would allow.
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I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.
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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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I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.
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For me, poetry is always a search for order.
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You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does.
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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
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A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being.
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I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well.
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