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poetry toenails poetry-is
Poetry is what makes my toenails twinkle. Dylan Thomas
poetry gaps thunder
The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps... so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in.
poetry bankers mysterious
Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker. Allen Tate
poet scientist
Scientist alone is true poet. Allen Ginsberg
poetry roles manipulation
Poetry's role is to provide spontaneous individual candor as distinct from manipulation and brainwash.
poetry poet
Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet. Alphonse de Lamartine
poetry prior published
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. Robert Adamson
poetry poet born
Poets are born, not paid. Addison Mizner
poetry refusal
The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write. Seamus Heaney
poet ifs
If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET. Countee Cullen
poetry trying literature
One way or another, all the poets of the thirties and forties reacted to Auden, either by rejecting him or trying to absorb him. Clive James
poetry doe veils
A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined not to scrape his bottom on anything solid. A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring. E. B. White
poetry doe veils
A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.
poet finest
Dan Gerber is one of our finest living poets. Annie Dillard
poetry-is knows dividends
Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are. Czeslaw Milosz
poetry bears weight
Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly. Anne Stevenson
poetry labels coins
My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees. Anne Sexton
poet painter great-poet
No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet. Claude Monet
poetry remember enough
No really sensible person ever remembers enough poetry to recite it. E. W. Howe
poetry
In a general way, I want to be a kind of flag-waver, bunting hanger-up, drum-beater, you name it, for poetry. Andrew Motion
poetry
In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
poetry
Poetry is more a threshold than a path.
poems
It's difficult to learn poems off by heart that don't rhyme.
poetry promote
In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
poetry
In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.
poetry
We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.
poetic-license people poetic
Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license. Christopher Plummer
poetry together groups
Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did. Christopher Morley
poetry should haiku
The author of haiku should be absent, and only the haiku present. Anne Bancroft
poetry century prose
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. David Hare
poet sad
Sad is the lot, who, once at least in his life, had not been a poet Alphonse Lamartine
poetry
As a schoolboy, poetry seemed defined by preciousness. It was all very rarefied. Simon Schama
poetry religion may
Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or, it may be, religion. Anna Jameson