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" 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
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" Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation. "
Robert Fitzgerald
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Most
" As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. "
T. S. Eliot
Game
Career
Life
" Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words. "
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Mathematics
Poetry
Words
" 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
" When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous. "
Norman MacCaig
Teach
You
Poetry
" You can be intuitive when you've got a more expansive role. You can get into the poetry of telling the story rather than just pushing buttons. "
Willem Dafoe
Got
Role
More
" To different minds, poetry may present different phases. To me, the reverent faith of the people I lived among, and their faithful everyday living, was poetry; blossoms and trees and blue shies were poetry. God himself was poetry. "
Lucy Larcom
Blue
Trees
Poetry
" All voices are important, and yet it seems that people of color have a lot to say, particularly if you look through the poetry of young people - a lot of questions and a lot of concerns about immigration and security issues, you name it - big questions. "
Juan Felipe Herrera
Poetry
People
Questions
" No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers. "
Horace
Poems
Water
Poetry
" 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
" The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot. "
Graham Joyce
Film
Poetry
Internet
" America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry? "
Azar Nafisi
Vision
Poetry
Happen
" I don't think rap really fits in to 'American Idol' in the sense that I believe rap is an art form in itself more akin to poetry, more akin to drama, if you will. "
Nigel Lythgoe
Poetry
Believe
Art
" A lot of people think, 'I'll give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesn't work out I'll go get a law degree, do something else that's more practical.' For me I went the reverse way. I lived the back-up plan. "
Brit Marling
Law
Poetry
People
" The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth. "
Marilynne Robinson
Poetry
Knowledge
Like
" I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people. "
Laura Dern
Who
Broken
People
" 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
" I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony. "
Mark Strand
American
Poetry
Personal
" Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do. "
Stephen Spender
Beyond
Great
Go
" 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
" The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart. "
Ryszard Kapuscinski
Heart
Learning
Also
" Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores? "
George Sand
Heart
Suffering
Door
" Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance. "
F. Sionil Jose
Poetry
Short
Elegance
" In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats - maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats - but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike. "
Maya Angelou
I Am
Work
Saying
" I wasn't afraid of being poor. I didn't want to live in a big house. I'm the perfect size for poetry. I can move around. "
Eileen Myles
Perfect
Poetry
Live
" My father is a visual artist, so I was influenced by him, and my mother is an English teacher who forced me to read a lot of books and poetry and get involved in theatre. I developed a varied taste for different arts. "
Taika Waititi
Theatre
Poetry
Mother
" For this reason poets and artists developed the doctrine of Art for Art's Sake. The community did not appear to need them, so, tit for tat, they did not need the community. This being granted, it was no longer necessary or even desirable to make one's poetry either intelligible or sympathetic to the community. "
Louis MacNeice
Art
Reason
Poetry
" Sylvia Plath, Rumi, there's a lot of spoken word poets who do a really incredible job putting their spoken work into page poetry - that's what I strive to do. "
Mary Lambert
Job
Work
Strive
" I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats. "
J. Courtney Sullivan
Poetry
Time
Without
" Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases. "
William Shenstone
Diseases
Consumption
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