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" Writing dark poetry was always my escape. "
Bishop Briggs
Poetry
Dark
Escape
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" Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling. "
Edward Hirsch
Poetry
Vocation
Calling
" So the best way to understand poetry, which is made by men, is to imitate, and that goes back to making work as a kind of doorway into new work, as opposed to making work as a mirror of the old work. "
Terrance Hayes
Work
Poetry
Mirror
" Poetry lies its way to the truth. "
John Ciardi
Truth
Poetry
Way
" When Auden said his poetry didn't save one Jew from the gas chamber, he'd said it all. "
Tom Stoppard
Jew
Poetry
Said
" This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry? "
Azar Nafisi
Time
Good
Marriage
" For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming. "
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Poetry
Quit
Seems
" I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet. "
Bob Dylan
Live
Myself
Poetry
" What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man. "
Stephen Greenblatt
Love
Language
Poetry
" I was around in 1970, and now I am around in 2015 ... there is no poetry and very little romance in anything anymore, so it is really like the last phase of 'American Pie.' "
Don McLean
Last
Pie
Now
" A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. "
Robert Frost
Wrong
Begins
Lump
" Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. "
Khalil Gibran
Joy
Poetry
Wonder
" 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
" In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself. "
Seamus Heaney
Ring
Within
Truth
" Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet. "
Misha Collins
Poetry
Like
Well
" I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it's poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple. "
Taylor Swift
Think
Saying
End
" In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don't care about my cinema. In Europe, they don't know my poetry; in Europe, I am a filmmaker. But here, in the United States, I am only a maverick! "
Jonas Mekas
Know
I Am
Poetry
" I know nothing new except that Herr Gellert, the Leipzig poet, is dead, and has written no more poetry since his death. "
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Death
Poetry
Know
" Money is a kind of poetry. "
Wallace Stevens
Money
Kind
Poetry
" The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it. "
Mahmoud Darwish
Importance
He
Finally
" If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel. "
Jim Morrison
Achieve
Feel
People
" When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program, we required the poets to take workshops in fiction writing, and we required the fiction writers to take workshops in poetry. "
Edward Hirsch
Writing
Poetry
University
" Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose. "
Elia Kazan
Acting
Realistic
Poetry
" More modern poetry is written than read. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Than
Read
Modern
" In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated. "
Seamus Heaney
Way
Cannot
Poetry
" The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair. "
Jose Bergamin
Novel
Born
Despair
" Poetry has always been made to seem kind of cultish. But the truth is, everybody really loves it! It's much more mainstream than anyone thought. "
Maria Shriver
Truth Is
Thought
Poetry
" Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence. "
Norman O. Brown
Freedom
Rules
Poetry
" When I was 18, I took a trip to Thailand with a friend. We stayed for a month. Bangkok was very raw for a teenager: there were no cellphones, no Internet, and the only music I had with me was this cassette by Liz Phair. I was writing a lot of poetry, and she embodied a talky style of songwriting that I found very accessible. "
Jenny Lewis
Poetry
Friend
Music
" If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry... thus much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet; and, when you die, your memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph. "
Philip Sidney
Live
Love
Mind
" What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth. "
Jean Marais
Truth
Always
Genre