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" Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content. "
Alfred de Musset
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" '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
" On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down, but it's differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there. "
Michael Cunningham
Work
Walking
Poetry
" Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. "
Thomas Mann
Birth
Solitude
Poetry
" Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. "
T. S. Eliot
Poetry
Personality
Know
" I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order. "
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Words
Best
Poetry
" But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell. "
Lascelles Abercrombie
Beauty
Poetry
Achieving
" One must not trifle with love. "
Alfred de Musset
Trifle
Love
Must
" A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups. "
Seamus Heaney
Expectation
Said
Political
" The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. "
Jean Cocteau
Always
Liar
Who
" Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe. "
Adrienne Rich
Poetry
Relationship
Power
" Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. "
Muhammad Iqbal
Poetry
Then
Men
" There is no one more deserving of a place in Poets' Corner. Ted Hughes introduced a new kind of landscape into English poetry. The most compelling aspect of his work was his intimacy with nature. "
Derek Walcott
Landscape
Work
Poetry
" Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life. "
William Hazlitt
Worth
Life
Poetry
" I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length. "
John Ashbery
Poetry
Head
Going
" Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time. "
Christopher Fry
You
Attention
Poetry
" In much of computer science, I can easily 'auto-grade' your work and give you an instant meaningful feedback. I can't do this when it comes to the subtlety of human thought, language, poetry, philosophy. "
Sebastian Thrun
Work
Poetry
Language
" However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it. "
James Schuyler
Poetry
Poem
Prose
" Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together. "
Nikki Giovanni
Friends
Together
Poetry
" What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man. "
Stephen Greenblatt
Love
Language
Poetry
" As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe - we are happiest when we are creating. "
Gary Hamel
Stupid
Create
Doing
" He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. "
George Sand
Never
Noble
Poetry
" Making love is, simply put, poetry in motion. "
Wale
Poetry
Love Is
Making
" Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science. "
Georges Seurat
I See
Poetry
Only
" However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird. "
Norman MacCaig
Help
Bird
Thought
" The sense of flowing, which is so crucial to song, is also crucial to poetry. "
Edward Hirsch
Sense
Song
Flowing
" Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. "
Walter Scott
Wisdom
Grace
Children
" Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in common: They had something to say, and did. "
Sarah Kay
Great
Say
Storytelling
" Ted Hughes is dead. That's a fact, OK. Then there's something called the poetry of Ted Hughes. The poetry of Ted Hughes is more real, very soon, than the myth that Ted Hughes existed - because that can't be proven. "
Derek Walcott
Dead
More
Real
" The thing about great poetry is we have no defenses against it. "
David Whyte
Against
Great
Poetry
" I would give anything to sing like Beyonce or Adele. I've said many times to my friends that if I could sing like them, I would give up poetry and writing. "
Rupi Kaur
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Writing
Up