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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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" However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it. "
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" I wanted to write the kind of poetry that people read and remembered, that they lived by - the kinds of lines that I carried with me from moment to moment on a given day without even having chosen to. "
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" I was a very creative child. I played the saxophone and piano, and I was always writing poetry and stories, or drawing in my notebook. I just tried to express myself through as many creative outlets as possible. And in high school, I started to get really into photography and videography and would spend hours working on it. "
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" Being able to say something lyrically, to say something that will do more than just be words, is really hard. It's easy to do when you're writing a chapter of a book or writing poetry, but it's really hard to do when you're confined to a melody line. "
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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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" Someone who's awake in the middle of the night is a soul consciousness when everyone else is asleep, and that creates a feeling of solitude in poetry that I very much like. "
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" The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all. "
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" Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied later Christians. He went around doing good and being compassionate. "
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" Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can't do any of that, yet we share 99 percent DNA. Everything that we are, that distinguishes us from chimps, emerges from that one-percent difference. "
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" Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. "
T. S. Eliot
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" Poetry lies its way to the truth. "
John Ciardi
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" Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. "
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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" I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry. "
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" Superstition is the poetry of life. "
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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" I started playing guitar when I was 13. I'd written a few songs on the guitar over some time. I'd written a book of poetry, and I got a book of lyrics that I had when I was a kid. "
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" Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. "
Albert Einstein
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" Poetry carries the imagery which is large enough for the kind of life we want for ourselves. "
David Whyte
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" The flame that is naturally clear always gives the most light and heat. If I could blend my talent for poetry and music into one, the light would burn still clearer, and I might go far. "
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" Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture. "
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" I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony. "
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" Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence. "
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" Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading. "
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