Famous Quotes: Poetry

I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I can't really think of anyone who's done anything like it since.
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Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.
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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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Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies.
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Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.
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If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
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I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.
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The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.
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I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.
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Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
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As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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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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Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.
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There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
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A lot happens by accident in poetry.
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Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
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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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Poetry is the deification of reality.
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We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
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