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" Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly. "
Anne Stevenson
Bears
Word
Poetry
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" Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. "
Albert Einstein
Ideas
Poetry
Pure
" You're shadowed by your own dream, especially as you get older, of trying to create something that will last in poetry. And so, you're working on its behalf. "
Edward Hirsch
Dream
Trying
Create
" We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. "
William Butler Yeats
Poetry
Others
Out
" We love, you know, children love the ingredients of poetry. And then they go into this tunnel that we call adolescence, and when they come out of it, they hate poetry. "
Billy Collins
You
Children
Hate
" I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people. "
Maya Angelou
I Am
Writing
Poetry
" Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture. "
Rita Dove
Someone
Poetry
Good
" Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early. "
Rita Dove
You
Teachers
Poetry
" Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books? "
Octavio Paz
Question
Books
End
" I intended an Ode, And it turned to a Sonnet. "
Henry Austin Dobson
Sonnet
Intended
Ode
" I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English. "
Alfred Nobel
Now
Poetry
Purpose
" Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart. "
Andres Segovia
Guitar
Poetry
Music
" Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful. "
Rita Dove
Powerful
Poetry
Language
" Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew. "
Anthony Hecht
Like
Dark
Hidden
" 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
" If I have to make a self-portrait, I would put poetry and rebellion on the list. To be able to walk on a wire, to be able to juggle six hoops, you need focus, another word for tenacity, which is passion. "
Philippe Petit
Passion
Walk
Need
" Without poetry, stories would be told in sepia. "
Ellen Hopkins
Would
Stories
Poetry
" That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact. "
Walter Pater
Fact
Sense
Poetry
" Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom. "
Wallace Stevens
People
Listening
Boy
" I love poetry. I love rhyming. Do you know, there are poets who don't rhyme? Shakespeare did not rhyme most of the time, and that's why I do not like him. "
Chuck Berry
Love
Know
Poetry
" I don't like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country. "
Will Cuppy
Poetry
Age
Country
" The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart. "
Ryszard Kapuscinski
Heart
Learning
Also
" As things get worse, poetry gets better because it becomes more necessary. "
Eileen Myles
Because
Things
Poetry
" A grain of poetry suffices to season a century. "
Jose Marti
Grain
Poetry
Season
" Nothing is too small. Nothing is too, quote-unquote, ordinary or insignificant. Those are the things that make up the measure of our days, and they're the things that sustain us. And they're the things that certainly can become worthy of poetry. "
Rita Dove
Nothing
Worthy
Measure
" Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living. "
Vanessa Redgrave
Alive
Go
Living
" 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
" Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words. "
Anatole Broyard
Words
Logical
Armed
" Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. "
A. E. Housman
Understanding
Perfect
Meaning
" Anyone reading contemporary poetry - especially contemporary African-American poetry - will quickly see that race is an enduring subject. What some don't realize is just how diverse the handling of that subject is. It's as diverse as blackness. "
Terrance Hayes
Poetry
See
Realize
" I grew up in a middle-class house without books, without art. No one around me wrote poetry or even read it. "
Edward Hirsch
House
Without
Poetry