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" The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry. "
Mark Knopfler
Just
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" I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting. "
Janine Turner
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" It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page. "
Howard Nemerov
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Said
Poetry
" It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life. "
David Whyte
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" I even played bass for a while. Besides playing electric guitar, I'd also get asked to play some acoustic stuff. But, since I didn't have an acoustic guitar at the time, I used to borrow one from a friend so I could play folk joints. "
Mark Knopfler
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Play
" I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose. "
Kapil Sibal
Fabulous
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Thoughts
" People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work. "
Mary Oliver
Want
Fancy
Need
" Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems. "
John Barton
Conversation
Reading
Sometimes
" Plagiarism has been around far longer than the Internet. In fact, I had a poem published in 'Seventeen' magazine when I was 15 years old. About a year later I was informed that there was a girl who used that same poem to win a statewide poetry competition in Alabama. It took months for people to put together that this had happened. "
Megan McCafferty
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Girl
Competition
" All voices are important, and yet it seems that people of color have a lot to say, particularly if you look through the poetry of young people - a lot of questions and a lot of concerns about immigration and security issues, you name it - big questions. "
Juan Felipe Herrera
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People
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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
Poetry
Little
More
" You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart. "
Carol Ann Duffy
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Memory
Life
" I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection. "
Neil Gaiman
Put
Want
Together
" Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry. "
Michael Eric Dyson
Brilliance
Hip-Hop
Poetry
" Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others. "
Mary Karr
Suffering
Poetry
Passion
" Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. "
Gustave Flaubert
Geometry
You
True
" Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations. "
Horace Walpole
Character
Poetry
Rules
" As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. "
T. S. Eliot
Game
Career
Life
" I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. "
Steven Wright
Thought
Poetry
Everything
" In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all. "
Wallace Stevens
Words
Your
Love
" Every single soul is a poem. "
Michael Franti
Poem
Poetry
Single
" Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth. "
Mary Oliver
Poetry
Earth
Arts
" Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. "
John Keats
Strike
Own
Poetry
" You can be intuitive when you've got a more expansive role. You can get into the poetry of telling the story rather than just pushing buttons. "
Willem Dafoe
Got
Role
More
" If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty. "
Rainer Maria Rilke
Daily Life
Life
Blame
" 'Words and Music' on Radio 3 is always a treat. Actors read passages of poetry and prose interspersed with music, and nobody tells you what it is. Later you can look it up online, but at the time you can't cheat. "
Claire Tomalin
Treat
Look
Poetry
" The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something. "
Rita Dove
Me
Poetry
Seen
" Rather than numbing or drowning out the difficult-to-describe but urgently sensed feelings that are part of being human, poetry invites us to tease them out, to draw them into language that is rooted in intricate thought and strange impulse. "
Tracy K. Smith
Thought
Feelings
Language
" Making love is, simply put, poetry in motion. "
Wale
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Love Is
Making
" I don't think poetry will die, but I think that poetry does demand a certain kind of attention to language. It does demand a certain space in order to read it, and I think that space is somewhat threatened by the lack of attention that people have and the amount of time that they give to things. "
Edward Hirsch
Poetry
Die
Think
" English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we decide to say that the English language extends. "
James Fenton
Poetry
Say
Language