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" As things get worse, poetry gets better because it becomes more necessary. "
Eileen Myles
Because
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" I went to school in California, at Stanford when I was seventeen, and I lived in San Francisco until I was twenty-three, and then I lived in Hungary for, like, a summer, and then I went to Iowa for three years. At Iowa, I actually did the fiction program, not poetry. I was a fiction writer for a long time before I was 'out' as a poet. "
Jenny Zhang
Summer
School
Poetry
" Where I come from, we sing poetry. "
Derek Walcott
Poetry
Where
Sing
" I read usually in the morning, in my kitchen at breakfast - a short reading time, usually poetry. I read in bed every night. I usually get in bed pretty early with a book, and I read until I can't prop my eyes open anymore - sometimes rather late. "
Sue Monk Kidd
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Time
" 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. "
Lisa Bonet
Community
Week
Risk
" It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life. "
David Whyte
Poetry
Discourse
Afraid
" The sense of flowing, which is so crucial to song, is also crucial to poetry. "
Edward Hirsch
Sense
Song
Flowing
" I guess the thing that I'm most proud of is that I kept on writing poetry. I understand that poetry is sort of the source of everything I do. It's the source of my creativity. "
Erica Jong
Creativity
Writing
Proud
" Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together. "
Nikki Giovanni
Friends
Together
Poetry
" Lizzie Magie was a pretty astonishing woman. She was an outspoken feminist, she had acted, she had done some performing, she had written some poetry, and she was a game designer. "
Mary Pilon
Game
Woman
She
" I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world. "
Russell Baker
World
Myself
Like
" When I started writing poetry, it was always in very hip-hop influenced spaces: Someone would teach a Nas song side-by-side with a Gwendolyn Brooks poem, and we'd talk about the connections between those things. "
Jamila Woods
Talk
Song
Poetry
" Spoken word poetry is the art of performance poetry. I tell people it involves creating poetry that doesn't just want to sit on paper, that something about it demands it be heard out loud or witnessed in person. "
Sarah Kay
Poetry
Art
People
" 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
Discipline
Poetry
Small
" There's never been a culture without poetry in the history of the world. "
Edward Hirsch
Poetry
World
Never
" I come from a short fiction background, and my mom is a poet, so I've always read poetry; I've always had a lot of different influences both linguistically and musically. "
Lorde
Mom
Poetry
Musically
" 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
" 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
Expect
People
Poetry
" I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism, but that other voice never fled from me. "
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Start
Ambition
Me
" All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry. "
Gustave Flaubert
True
Poetry
Geometry
" I grew up in a place in which, if you learned poetry, you shouted it out. Boys would scream it out and perform it and do it and flourish it. "
Derek Walcott
Scream
You
Poetry
" A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances. "
Douglas Dunn
Poetry
Impact
You
" A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. "
E. M. Forster
Information
Poetry
Together
" Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home. "
Seamus Heaney
Domestic
Most
Art
" Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody. "
Joshua Logan
Own
Music
Melody
" Poetry is necessary, but is the poet? "
Carlos Drummond de Andrade
Necessary
Poetry
Poet
" There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write. "
Henry R. Luce
Poetry
Who
Write
" Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people. "
Macklemore
More
Reading
Way
" So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us. "
Tracy K. Smith
Thinking
Distance
Poetry
" I love reading all kinds of books. I usually have about ten books going at any one time - books about the past, the present, novels, non-fiction, poetry, mythology, religion, etc. Reading is my favorite thing to do. "
Mary Pope Osborne
Past
Love
Reading
" Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one. "
W. H. Auden
Responsibility
Poet
American