Quotes about poetry
poetry served
Poetry itself hasn't been well served by poets who fled to the margins. Edward Hirsch
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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.
poetry qualified
Everyone is not able, or inclined, to write poetry in the narrower sense any more than everyone is qualified to take part in a walking race. But just as all of us can and do walk, so all of us can and do use language poetically. Louis MacNeice
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I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting. Janine Turner
poetry literature poetry-is
I've written some poetry I don't understand myself. Carl Sandburg
poetry literature synthesis
Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
poetry invisible keepsakes
Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.
poetry barriers syllables
Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.
poetry literature logic
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. Edward Young
poetry remember enough
No really sensible person ever remembers enough poetry to recite it. E. W. Howe
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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
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In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance. Seamus Heaney
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Poetry is more a threshold than a path.
poetry promote
In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
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In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.
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We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.
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I'm so happy to be an advocate for poetry.
poetry suburban teenager
I started writing poetry as a teenager in suburban Chicago out of emotional desperation.
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As long as there's been poetry, there have been lamentations.
poetry-is knows dividends
Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are. Czeslaw Milosz
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 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 poet
Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet. Alphonse de Lamartine