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" A lot of people think, 'I'll give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesn't work out I'll go get a law degree, do something else that's more practical.' For me I went the reverse way. I lived the back-up plan. "

Brit Marling

Law

Poetry

People

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" Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it. "

" Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it. "

" When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry. "

" In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets. "

" In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated. "

" To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry. "

" 'Milk and Honey' was written with me being honest to myself, kind of pulling at the things that I hear the most and saying that out loud, and you know, that thing that we hear the most is most universal, and so that rings true with all folks. The language used in the poetry is extremely, extremely accessible. "

Rupi Kaur

Language

Poetry

" Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty. "

" Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words. "

" A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience. "

" We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine. "

" There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing. "

" No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers. "

" He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. "

" The crown of literature is poetry. "

" I've been writing since I was 10 or 11. I started with poetry because that was the easiest thing. It just kind of came naturally. I think at that time West Coast hip hop was huge; all these kids around me were like, 'I want to be a rapper.' But I'm a white girl, not going to be a rapper. "

Sasha Grey

Writing

Poetry

" Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully. "

" Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak. "

" I didn't understand how you could be an actor if you didn't also study philosophy and study political science, astronomy. And also just go out and live life and have experiences. "

" I started writing poetry as a teenager in suburban Chicago out of emotional desperation. "

" If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. "

" I have written some songs, but I would really call what I've done poetry at the end of the day, because I'll sit with my guitar for hours and hours on end for, like, a week and then I won't touch it for a month. I also just have no confidence. And you know what? I don't have time, because I'd rather be doing other things, like knitting. "

" I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere life is cheaper. "

" Not too many people know it, but when I was in junior high, I was a pretty tough kid and was the leader of a street gang. Well, OK, it was less a street gang than an Ecology Club. We were pretty intimidating, though, and had our own meeting room until we got run out of there by a bunch of thugs from the Poetry Society. "

" I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry. "

" You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. "