Quotes about poetry
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As long as there's been poetry, there have been lamentations. Edward Hirsch
poetry ridiculous seems understand
That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous Galway Kinnell
poetry science
Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.
poetry work
I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out. Ed Westwick
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Poetry, just because it is poetry, doesn't mean it is some kind of magic spell. Franz Wright
poetry rats terriers
I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat. A. E. Housman
poetry time
Poetry takes place in time. It is a durational. Things take place in sequence.
poetry ted writes
Poetry should be for the people. It always has been, ... Ted writes poetry for the people. Dave Evans
poetry served
Poetry itself hasn't been well served by poets who fled to the margins.
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Poetry is not easy. Or should I say, real poetry is not easy. Robert Pinsky
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Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling.
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Poetry is a call to action, and it also is action. Juan Felipe Herrera
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Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is go where they can find you.
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Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision. Octavio Paz
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Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?
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Back then, I was an acoustically-oriented artist. Honestly, 'Poetry Man' wouldn't have been my first choice. Phoebe Snow
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My poetry is the most disappointing thing for me that I've ever written. When I say I can write everything, I don't say I can write everything well. Jess Walter
poetry-is knows dividends
Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are. Czeslaw Milosz
poetry pardon burned
For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd. Alexander Pope
poetry together literature
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. E. M. Forster
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 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.
poetry century prose
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. David Hare
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 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
poetry bankers mysterious
Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker. Allen Tate
poetry roles manipulation
Poetry's role is to provide spontaneous individual candor as distinct from manipulation and brainwash. Allen Ginsberg
poetry poet
Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet. Alphonse de Lamartine