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" I always knew that was what I wanted to do - to write, particularly poetry. "
Derek Walcott
Always
Write
Wanted
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" I started playing guitar when I was 13. I'd written a few songs on the guitar over some time. I'd written a book of poetry, and I got a book of lyrics that I had when I was a kid. "
Lewis Hamilton
Guitar
Poetry
Kid
" Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind. "
Edward Hirsch
Poetry
Experience
Mind
" I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality. "
Azar Nafisi
Soul
People
Poetry
" Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got to burn away all the peripherals. "
Sylvia Plath
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Poetry
Small
" There's a ritualistic element to tragedy that everyone shares; there's something curiously glorious in terms of the most horrible kind of events that happen. "
Derek Walcott
Everyone
Tragedy
Kind
" Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have. "
John Masefield
Common Sense
Sense
Poetry
" A poem is never finished, only abandoned. "
Paul Valery
Abandoned
Poetry
Poem
" 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
You
Wine
Drunk
" The poet doesn't invent. He listens. "
Jean Cocteau
Invent
Listens
Poetry
" My first book of poems was published privately in 1949. That was my mother. The book was '25 Poems.' It cost 200 dollars. "
Derek Walcott
Book
Cost
First
" Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet. "
Huston Smith
Truth
Poetry
She
" And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will. "
Ezra Pound
City
Beautiful
New York
" It is certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry. "
John Singer Sargent
Thought
Certain
Talent
" As I grew older - collapsing into my seventies, glimpsing ahead the cliffs of the eighties, colliding into eighty-five - poetry abandoned me. "
Donald Hall
Seventies
Me
Ahead
" Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. "
Virginia Woolf
Poetry
True
Best
" My dedication to trying to be a poet started very, very young, and I was very well encouraged by good teachers and by older friends and so on, so I think it is a benediction, and I also think it is a calling, a duty. "
Derek Walcott
Think
Dedication
Friends
" The Bible is very resonant. It has everything: creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the Bible, and all great writers have drawn from it and more than people realise, whether Shakespeare, Herman Melville or Bob Dylan. "
Patti Smith
Sacrifice
Poetry
Bible
" The Chinese, the African, and the European - they are all there. So the division of the Caribbean experience into being emphatically only African is absurd. "
Derek Walcott
Only
Caribbean
Division
" I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs. "
Roger Waters
Father
Creativity
Best
" Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living. "
Vanessa Redgrave
Alive
Go
Living
" Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry and the comedic trash talk of 'the dozens.' "
Quincy Jones
Realize
Trash
Talk
" Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases. "
William Shenstone
Diseases
Consumption
Most
" Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody. "
Joshua Logan
Own
Music
Melody
" It's necessary to start most work alone. But I'm tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether it's borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate. "
Jenny Holzer
Work
Start
Poetry
" When I was in college, I really liked poetry. I don't read much anymore. "
Steve Martin
College
Anymore
Much
" Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it. "
Vincent Van Gogh
Poetry
Paper
Alas
" I am only one-eighth the writer I might have been had I contained all the fragmented languages of Trinidad. "
Derek Walcott
I Am
Am
Been
" I was a very creative child. I played the saxophone and piano, and I was always writing poetry and stories, or drawing in my notebook. I just tried to express myself through as many creative outlets as possible. And in high school, I started to get really into photography and videography and would spend hours working on it. "
Kali Uchis
Myself
Writing
School
" Poetry is meant to inspire readers and listeners, to connect them more deeply to themselves even as it links them more fully to others. But many people feel put off by the terms of poetry, its odd vocabulary, its notorious difficulty. "
Edward Hirsch
Feel
Poetry
Inspire