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" As I grew older - collapsing into my seventies, glimpsing ahead the cliffs of the eighties, colliding into eighty-five - poetry abandoned me. "
Donald Hall
Seventies
Me
Ahead
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" I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits. "
J. Carter Brown
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Like
Poetry
" 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. "
Socrates
Wisdom
Poetry
Find
" I was raised on songs of poetry like Simon and Garfunkel and Cat Stevens and Neil Young, etc. I love those old songs probably the most because they hit me so deep down in my core. "
Jessica Steen
Down
Me
Deep
" Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content. "
Alfred de Musset
Memorable
True
Three
" Plagiarism has been around far longer than the Internet. In fact, I had a poem published in 'Seventeen' magazine when I was 15 years old. About a year later I was informed that there was a girl who used that same poem to win a statewide poetry competition in Alabama. It took months for people to put together that this had happened. "
Megan McCafferty
People
Girl
Competition
" Poetry is not Irish or any other nationality; and when writers such as Messrs. Clarke, Farren and the late F. R. Higgins pursue Irishness as a poetic end, they are merely exploiting incidental local colour. "
Patrick Kavanagh
Colour
End
Irish
" I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry. "
Rick Springfield
Kids
Dark
Poetry
" My first spoken word poem, packed with all the wisdom of a 14-year-old, was about the injustice of being seen as unfeminine. The poem was very indignant, and mainly exaggerated, but the only spoken word poetry that I had seen up until that point was mainly indignant, so I thought that that's what was expected of me. "
Sarah Kay
Wisdom
Thought
Poetry
" The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart. "
Ryszard Kapuscinski
Heart
Learning
Also
" Rap and spoken word have reawakened the country to poetry in itself. Texting and Twitter encourage creative uses of casual language, in ways I have celebrated widely. But we've fallen behind on savoring the formal layer of our language. "
John McWhorter
Rap
Creative
Country
" Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it. "
Russell Baker
Vital
Poetry
Until
" The line is a way of framing poetry. All verse is measured by lines. The poetic line immediately announces its difference from everyday speech and prose. "
Edward Hirsch
Speech
Poetry
Difference
" There's a great deal of stripping away; in early drafts, I may say the same thing two or three times, and each may be appropriate, but I try to pick the best and improve it. I work on sound a great deal, and I will change a word or two, revise punctuation and line breaks, looking for the sound I want. "
Donald Hall
Great
Looking
Say
" The muse, the beloved, and duende are three ways of thinking of what is the source of poetry, and all three seem to me different names or different ways to think about something that is not entirely reasonable, not entirely subject to the will, not entirely rational. "
Edward Hirsch
Poetry
Think
Thinking
" 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
" Let's detox our cluttered academic brain. That's what the poet does. People call it daydreaming, detoxing our minds and taking care of that clutter. It's being able to let in call letters from the poetry universe. "
Juan Felipe Herrera
Universe
Poetry
People
" To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul. "
Susan Vreeland
Soul
Me
Eye
" I loathe the trivialization of poetry that happens in creative writing classes. Teachers set exercises to stimulate subject matter: Write a poem about an imaginary landscape with real people in it. Write about a place your parents lived in before you were born. We have enough terrible poetry around without encouraging more of it. "
Donald Hall
Poetry
Parents
People
" Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality. "
Mohsin Hamid
Live
Deal
Life
" No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers. "
Horace
Poems
Water
Poetry
" In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets. "
James Broughton
Real
Few
World
" Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. "
Virginia Woolf
Poetry
True
Best
" Elaine Equi has been publishing her observant, often playful poetry for some 30 years, extending and deepening the range of her intrinsically wry voice. "
Floyd Skloot
Years
Poetry
Her
" You can be intuitive when you've got a more expansive role. You can get into the poetry of telling the story rather than just pushing buttons. "
Willem Dafoe
Got
Role
More
" Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly. "
Anne Stevenson
Bears
Word
Poetry
" I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives. "
Sylvia Plath
Growing
Poetry
Great
" I accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera. Each film I make is kind of a return to poetry for me, or at least an attempt to create a poem. "
Bernardo Bertolucci
Camera
Poetry
Reality
" You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble. "
Charles Olson
My Life
People
Help
" Existential philosophy, poetry and art - just like sadness - were all unavoidable to a tender young man in the meat works. "
Michael Leunig
Art
Man
Philosophy
" Sylvia Plath, Rumi, there's a lot of spoken word poets who do a really incredible job putting their spoken work into page poetry - that's what I strive to do. "
Mary Lambert
Job
Work
Strive