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" Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. "
Thomas Babington Macaulay
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" Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves. "
T. S. Eliot
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" I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives. "
Sylvia Plath
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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. "
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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" The applause of his native land is the richest reward to which the patriot ever aspires. It is this for which 'he bears to live or dares to die.' It is the high incentive to those achievements which illustrate the page of history and give to poetry its brightest charm. "
John Tyler
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" Lizzie Magie was a pretty astonishing woman. She was an outspoken feminist, she had acted, she had done some performing, she had written some poetry, and she was a game designer. "
Mary Pilon
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" Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which occur in nature in many different persons. "
Francisco Goya
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" I started writing poetry as a teenager in suburban Chicago out of emotional desperation. "
Edward Hirsch
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" I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time. "
Robert Hass
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Time
" Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry. "
Georges Braque
Poetry
Ray
Reality
" There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write. "
Henry R. Luce
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" Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. "
Jorge Luis Borges
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" You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were the reason I developed neuroses. These people that tortured my life were using my art, my poetry, as fuel for them, to torture other people. "
Fred Durst
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" I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet. "
Bob Dylan
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" I don't like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country. "
Will Cuppy
Poetry
Age
Country
" There's always a need at a critical time for poetry. "
Derek Walcott
Poetry
Time
Always
" I read a little bit of nonfiction and a lot of poetry. I think of poetry as my shot of whiskey when I don't have time to savor a whole bottle of wine. "
Alice McDermott
Whiskey
Wine
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" By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made. "
Lascelles Abercrombie
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Mean
" Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. "
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Mirror
Beautiful
" The topics just kind of come to me. If they are relevant, it's because they're happening in the world around me, and it's affecting me. Poetry is my way of dealing with it. "
Rupi Kaur
Kind
Because
World
" There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song. "
Phil Ochs
Look
Poetry
Song
" This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul. "
Eugenio Montale
Die
Always
Great
" In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you. "
Abbas Kiarostami
Still
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Darkness
" There's a reason poets often say, 'Poetry saved my life,' for often the blank page is the only one listening to the soul's suffering, the only one registering the story completely, the only one receiving all softly and without condemnation. "
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Soul
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Poetry
" There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking. "
Jean de la Bruyere
Painting
Music
Mediocrity
" I did not move into developing or processing color. I stayed with black and white. I still think to this day that I prefer to work in black and white if it has to do with poetry or anything other than specific reality. I have worked in color when I thought it was the appropriate way to express the thought that I was working on. "
Leonard Nimoy
Day
Black And White
Poetry
" Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure. "
Mark Strand
Pleasure
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" If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger. "
Muriel Rukeyser
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World
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" Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. "
John Keats
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Almost
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" A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do. "
Karen Armstrong
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Us
" In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated. "
Seamus Heaney
Way
Cannot
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