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" Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence. "
Norman O. Brown
Freedom
Rules
Poetry
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" So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us. "
Tracy K. Smith
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Distance
Poetry
" All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry. "
Gustave Flaubert
True
Poetry
Geometry
" This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry? "
Azar Nafisi
Time
Good
Marriage
" Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. "
Leonard Cohen
Evidence
Poetry
Well
" Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about. "
Wislawa Szymborska
Writing
Walls
Ring
" Poetry is what gets lost in translation. "
Robert Frost
Gets
Lost
Poetry
" America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry? "
Azar Nafisi
Vision
Poetry
Happen
" Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody. "
Joshua Logan
Own
Music
Melody
" 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
" My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours he did. "
Dylan Walsh
Father
Me
Name
" Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own. "
Salvatore Quasimodo
Own
Personal
Feeling
" Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. "
Muhammad Iqbal
Poetry
Then
Men
" I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher principles. Are they necessarily inseparable? Is man really so much of a philosopher, that he can conceive of truth in its abstract purity, and divest life and the affections of all the aids of the imagination? "
James Fenimore Cooper
Life
Imagination
Religion
" It would probably surprise people to know that I'm interested in wildlife. I read a lot of poetry, too. "
Sean Bean
Wildlife
Surprise
Poetry
" Poetry can tell us about what's going on in our lives - not only our personal but our social and political lives. "
Juan Felipe Herrera
Tell
Going
Personal
" 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 poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. "
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Poetry
Cheese
Subject
" There's a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that's a bit blurred in my mind. "
Bo Burnham
Blurred
Music
Mind
" Poetry is a call to action, and it also is action. "
Juan Felipe Herrera
Action
Poetry
Also
" In the United States, in poetry workshops, it's now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart. "
Seamus Heaney
Heart
Students
Learn
" Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. "
Thomas Gray
Words
Burn
Poetry
" Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. "
Charles Simic
Poetry
Silence
Them
" I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream. "
Mark Strand
Poetry
America
Clear
" 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
" What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music. "
Soren Kierkegaard
Beautiful
Heart
Music
" Daydreaming is one of the key sources of poetry - a poem often starts as a daydream that finds its way into language - and walking seems to bring a different sort of alertness, an associative kind of thinking, a drifting state of mind. "
Edward Hirsch
Thinking
Walking
Key
" Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases. "
William Shenstone
Diseases
Consumption
Most
" Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler. "
Mark Strand
Poetry
Rest
First
" In poetry you can express almost inexpressible feelings. You can express the pain of loss, you can express love. People always turn to poetry when someone they love dies, when they fall in love. "
Erica Jong
Love
Fall
Poetry
" A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances. "
Douglas Dunn
Poetry
Impact
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