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" A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups. "
Seamus Heaney
Expectation
Said
Political
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" That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact. "
Walter Pater
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" 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
" Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got to burn away all the peripherals. "
Sylvia Plath
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Poetry
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" There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with literacy where poetry and song are distinguished. But poetry always remembers that it has its origins in music. "
Edward Hirsch
Poetry
Song
Music
" I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have. "
Natasha Trethewey
Think
Always
Faith
" Eternal life can mean utter reverence for life itself. "
Seamus Heaney
Eternal Life
Mean
Reverence
" Poetry is life distilled. "
Gwendolyn Brooks
Distilled
Poetry
Life
" There is no one more deserving of a place in Poets' Corner. Ted Hughes introduced a new kind of landscape into English poetry. The most compelling aspect of his work was his intimacy with nature. "
Derek Walcott
Landscape
Work
Poetry
" When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images. "
Niels Bohr
Creating
Used
Facts
" No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results? "
John Barton
Expect
Poem
Fast
" From my teenage years on, I sought out Native elders from many tribal nations and listened to their words. I also started a small press, The Greenfield Review Press, and became very involved with publishing the work of other American Indian authors, especially books of poetry. "
Joseph Bruchac
American
Small
Words
" When Auden said his poetry didn't save one Jew from the gas chamber, he'd said it all. "
Tom Stoppard
Jew
Poetry
Said
" I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. "
Eminem
Read
Think
Poetry
" Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry. "
Wislawa Szymborska
Talent
Vacuum
Polish
" Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure. "
Mark Strand
Pleasure
Poem
End
" I wrote poetry, which got me into lyrics. Stevie Wonder, Carole King, Elton John pulled me into pop. I started singing with a band - just for fun - when I was 17. And pretty soon, I was thinking I could sing pop in English as well as Spanish. "
Gloria Estefan
Thinking
Singing
Me
" For me, there is a paradox in poetry, which is like the paradox in tragedy. You have the most terrible subject, but it's in a form that is so sensually gratifying that it connects the surviving heart to the despairing intellect. "
Tony Harrison
Poetry
Heart
Like
" That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the pronouncements of a Plato can disestablish. "
H. P. Lovecraft
Plato
Even
Poetry
" While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song. "
David Antin
Far
Song
Poetry
" I like to give and get basically anything (I love to read) but especially fiction and poetry. "
Suzan-Lori Parks
Get
Give
Love
" In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry. "
Seamus Heaney
Ireland
Used
Northern Ireland
" I used to spend a lot of time dreaming and writing poetry. "
Mohit Chauhan
Poetry
Writing
Used
" If the poetry world celebrate its female stars at the true level of their productivity and influence, poetry would wind up being a largely female world, and the men would leave. "
Eileen Myles
Stars
Wind
Celebrate
" '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
Me
" You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you. "
Joseph Joubert
You
Will
Bring
" I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem are very important to me. "
Margaret Atwood
Sound
Words
Me
" I don't like the word 'poetry,' and I don't like poetry readings, and I usually don't like poets. I would much prefer describing myself and what I do as: I'm kind of a curator, and I'm kind of a night-owl reporter. "
Tom Waits
Kind
Word
Poetry
" I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up. "
Keith Haring
Swallowed
Been
Up
" I grew up in a household that had its roots in church and community and culture and poetry and song and in the arts. Those aspects certainly shaped what I do. "
Robert Battle
Community
Song
Poetry
" I always had a superstitious fear of setting up a too well-designed writing place and then finding that the writing had absconded. "
Seamus Heaney
Fear
Always
Writing