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" Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. "
Muhammad Iqbal
Poetry
Then
Men
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" Words, without power, is mere philosophy. "
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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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" 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
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" One of the things that is wonderful about hymns is that they are a sort of universally shared poetry, at least among certain populations. "
Marilynne Robinson
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" If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness. "
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" Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words. "
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" It's not easy to define poetry. "
Bob Dylan
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" I've been writing poetry seriously since about 2008, 2009. "
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" There's poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don't like doing what people expect me to do. "
Dave Grohl
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" To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry. "
Mahmoud Darwish
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" It's more fun to have a name rather than a number. I think this gives our products a personality. I get the names from literature, movies, opera, traveling, nature, poetry, sometimes even the street. I keep a small book that I write in. I wake up in the middle of the night and jot down a name for a lipstick or an eyeshadow. "
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" Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. "
Denis Diderot
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Vast
Something
" Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented. "
Mark Strand
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" I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding. "
Rita Dove
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I See
" Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave? "
Muhammad Iqbal
Satisfied
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Why
" Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth. "
June Jordan
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" Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject. "
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" I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. "
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" Making poetry with a camera - that's the essence of what I do. "
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" 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. "
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" 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! "
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" Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. "
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" History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid. "
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" The idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an artist, not just a diarist. So I put myself through a kind of apprenticeship in writing poetry, and I understood even then that my practice as a poet was deeply related to my reading. "
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" Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass. "
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" We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine. "
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" Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words. "
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" I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry. "
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" A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk. "
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