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" By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar. "
David Whyte
Interesting
Just
Poetry
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" It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither. "
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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" Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket. "
Charles Simic
Needle
Poem
Poetry
" A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art. "
Mark Strand
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Life
" I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light. "
Mahmoud Darwish
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" It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Behind
Monuments
Edgy
" The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch. "
E. M. Forster
Objects
Touch
Poetry
" I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now. "
Norman MacCaig
Poetry
American
Less
" I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right. "
Maya Angelou
Poetry
Worst
Sometimes
" I always knew that was what I wanted to do - to write, particularly poetry. "
Derek Walcott
Always
Write
Wanted
" Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful. "
Rita Dove
Powerful
Poetry
Language
" Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. "
T. S. Eliot
Genuine
Before
Poetry
" Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings. "
Umberto Eco
Language
Feelings
Matter
" Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born. "
Daisaku Ikeda
Poetry
Universe
Born
" Often people, when they're confronted with a poem, it's like someone who keep saying 'what is the meaning of this? What is the meaning of this?' And that dulls us to the other pleasures poetry offers. "
Billy Collins
Someone
Meaning
People
" The thing about great poetry is we have no defenses against it. "
David Whyte
Against
Great
Poetry
" That's another pompous expression that is out of fashion, to say that poetry is a gift. It sounds pompous because you say, 'Who gave you the gift, and what is this gift?' And the gift is where I am; the gift is what I have come out of, the people around me who, I think, are beautiful people. "
Derek Walcott
Beautiful
People
Poetry
" English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we decide to say that the English language extends. "
James Fenton
Poetry
Say
Language
" Every single soul is a poem. "
Michael Franti
Poem
Poetry
Single
" Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it. "
Vincent Van Gogh
Poetry
Paper
Alas
" A real conversation always contains an invitation. You are inviting another person to reveal herself or himself to you, to tell you who they are or what they want. "
David Whyte
You
Want
Person
" In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats - maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats - but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike. "
Maya Angelou
I Am
Work
Saying
" All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. "
Oscar Wilde
Poetry
Bad
Feeling
" I spent many years in college studying English literature. I was on the verge of attending grad school to get a Ph.D. in Renaissance poetry - my lost careers were being a writer, artist, or academic. Do I regret spending all that time poring over Shakespeare when I could have been getting a jump start on the competition? Not at all. "
Caterina Fake
Competition
College
Lost
" 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 found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits. "
J. Carter Brown
Arts
Like
Poetry
" So the best way to understand poetry, which is made by men, is to imitate, and that goes back to making work as a kind of doorway into new work, as opposed to making work as a mirror of the old work. "
Terrance Hayes
Work
Poetry
Mirror
" Many great works of art, poetry, and music are inspired by astral memories. The desire to do noble, beautiful things here on Earth is also often a carryover of astral experiences between a person's earth lives. "
Paramahansa Yogananda
Beautiful
Great
Music
" '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
" Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which occur in nature in many different persons. "
Francisco Goya
Together
Like
Nature
" 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