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" Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks. "
Ed Koch
Canvas
Poetry
People
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" With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem. "
Lascelles Abercrombie
Man
Determination
Best
" There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry. "
Rita Dove
Poetry
Plan
Library
" There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate. "
Ed Koch
Rest
Relationship
New York
" Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have. "
John Masefield
Common Sense
Sense
Poetry
" In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English. "
Victor Hugo
Poetry
Great
Privilege
" There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans. "
Helen Thomas
" The Republicans are coming - make nice. "
Ed Koch
Nice
Republicans
Coming
" If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. "
M. H. Abrams
Missed
Through
Poetry
" We all know what it means to be sung to. And poetry is very close to that. "
Robin Coste Lewis
Sung
Means
Poetry
" Poetry is meant to be heard. "
Mary Oliver
Heard
Poetry
Meant
" And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it. "
Norman MacCaig
Got
Nothing
Poetry
" Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future. "
Octavio Paz
Future
Poetry
Progress
" I was drafted into the Army when I was 19 and came out at age 22. Most people that I knew didn't think they'd come home alive. I didn't think I would either, so I was happy when I did. "
Ed Koch
Army
Age
Happy
" I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have. "
Natasha Trethewey
Think
Always
Faith
" The very fact that I became mayor in 1977 conveys how you can't figure out what the people will do. Nobody thought I would be elected. When I entered I got four percent of the vote in the first poll, four percent. "
Ed Koch
People
Thought
Nobody
" When I get depressed, I try to get something for the terrible sadness that comes over me and create something in terms of poetry. "
Spike Milligan
Over
Try
Sadness
" I think I have a very good reputation amongst the gay population and among the whole country because I stood up on the issue of gay rights. It is not easy to stand up on that issue when you are single and male in New York City. I did it anyway. "
Ed Koch
Think
Stand Up
New York
" I always loved singing and writing poetry. I always loved music, and I've loved writing my whole life. When I put them together, it was probably in my early 20s where I put words to music for the first time. "
Lisa Marie Presley
Words
Together
Time
" Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives. "
Richard Eyre
Creative
Poetry
People
" Look at Allen Ginsberg. In poems like 'Kaddish' and 'Howl,' you can hear a cantor between the lines. It's fully alive, and I think that's what's missing in modern poetry. It's too dry and cerebral. "
Derek Walcott
Missing
Alive
Look
" Poetry is a beautiful way of expressing feelings - happy, sad, angry, caring. It's also a way that we share with other people, to help them with those feelings. "
Mattie Stepanek
Angry
Beautiful
Caring
" Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty. "
Dennis Potter
Reach
Children
Poetry
" The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse. "
Ed Koch
You
Begin
Fireworks
" Poetry is the deification of reality. "
Edith Sitwell
Poetry
Reality
" The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch. "
E. M. Forster
Objects
Touch
Poetry
" 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
" 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
" The Victorian language of flowers began with the publication of 'Le Language des Fleurs,' written by Charlotte de Latour and printed in Paris in 1819. To create the book - which was a list of flowers and their meanings - de Latour gathered references to flower symbolism throughout poetry, ancient mythology, and even medicine. "
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Medicine
Flowers
Book
" One characteristic of modern poetry is that arrangement of parts which strikes many people as being violent or obscure. "
Muriel Rukeyser
Modern
Being
Poetry
" I'm so happy to be an advocate for poetry. "
Edward Hirsch
Poetry
Advocate
Happy