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" Everybody interprets things differently with their own perception, and I want poetry to pull out of them their own feelings. "
John Trudell
Poetry
Feelings
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" It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish. "
Charles Baudelaire
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" Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private. "
Allen Ginsberg
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Say
Speak
" When we were 15, my girlfriend Ruth Kaplan and I applied to the Universidad Ibero-Americana in Mexico City. We were accepted into a program that placed us with a lovely Mexican family. We lived with them for six weeks while studying Spanish poetry and Mexican anthropology. "
Mary Doria Russell
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City
" 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
" Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan. "
Erica Jong
Poetry
School
Think
" At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music. "
Satyajit Ray
Poetry
Music
Listening
" Poetry comes alive to me through recitation. "
Natalie Merchant
Me
Alive
Recitation
" I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies. "
Boris Pasternak
Simple
Down
Grass
" 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
" Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. "
Horace Walpole
Way
Art
Beautiful
" I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry. "
Shelby Foote
Writing
Trying
Find
" Without poetry, stories would be told in sepia. "
Ellen Hopkins
Would
Stories
Poetry
" A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. "
Robert Frost
Wrong
Begins
Lump
" In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself. "
Seamus Heaney
Ring
Within
Truth
" 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
" Poetry is a form of necessary speech... I have sought to restore the aura of sacred practice that accompanies true poetic creation, to honor both the rational and the irrational elements of poetry. "
Edward Hirsch
Practice
Honor
Poetry
" If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. "
Emily Dickinson
Poetry
Me
Know
" My junior high school teacher, Bennie Williams, was really more than a music teacher. She taught us poetry. She helped us put on school shows. She did all these kinds of things to help us stand in each other's shoes, and it was a really powerful time. That's when I discovered that I could sing. "
Dianne Reeves
Teacher
Shoes
Time
" Poetry has always been made to seem kind of cultish. But the truth is, everybody really loves it! It's much more mainstream than anyone thought. "
Maria Shriver
Truth Is
Thought
Poetry
" All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. "
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Metaphor
Slang
Poetry
" I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes. "
Taylor Momsen
Really
Enjoy
English
" I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which goes against the trend in fiction. "
Jesmyn Ward
Poetry
World
Reading
" 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
" Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel. "
Seamus Heaney
Solidarity
Judging
Poetry
" I grew up in a household that had its roots in church and community and culture and poetry and song and in the arts. Those aspects certainly shaped what I do. "
Robert Battle
Community
Song
Poetry
" We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves. "
Seamus Heaney
General
Go
Literature
" And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem. "
Mark Strand
Feel
Direction
Free
" 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
" Poetry is more a threshold than a path. "
Seamus Heaney
Threshold
More
Poetry
" Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness. "
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Look
Great
Find