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" I don't feel like a celebrity. Poetry justifies celebrity. It's good to have respect for a poet. "
Derek Walcott
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" Poetry is not an issue of form and enjambments. Poetry, as the word is classically used, has to do with sound and sense. It can be rhyme. It can be rhythm, pace, breath. "
Tim O'Brien
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" At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music. "
Satyajit Ray
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" I always loved singing and writing poetry. I always loved music, and I've loved writing my whole life. When I put them together, it was probably in my early 20s where I put words to music for the first time. "
Lisa Marie Presley
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" Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. "
James Joyce
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Always
" A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away. "
Ivan Turgenev
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" However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it. "
James Schuyler
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" One culture I find fascinating to juxtapose against American culture is the culture of Germany. They've gone through a long process through their art, poetry, public discourse, their politics, of owning the fact of their complicity in what happened in World War II. It's still a topic of everyday conversation in Germany. "
Chris Jordan
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" He could not die when trees were green, for he loved the time too well. "
John Clare
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Trees
Green
" 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
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" Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies. "
F. Sionil Jose
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" I accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera. Each film I make is kind of a return to poetry for me, or at least an attempt to create a poem. "
Bernardo Bertolucci
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Reality
" Sometimes what we call tragedy, at least in the theater, are really case histories. They're based on the central figure, and things happen to that person, and they're called tragedy because they're extremely sad. But tragedy always has a glorious thing happen at the end of it. That's what the catharsis is. "
Derek Walcott
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Tragedy
Sad
" I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group. "
Leonard Cohen
Group
Singing
Poetry
" A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman. "
Wallace Stevens
Woman
Way
Poetry
" 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
" History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid. "
Lady Gaga
Relationship
Pain
History
" I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up. "
Keith Haring
Swallowed
Been
Up
" The painter I really thought I could learn from was Cezanne - some sort of resemblance to oranges and greens and browns of the dry season in St. Lucia. "
Derek Walcott
Learn
Dry
Thought
" Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision. "
Octavio Paz
World
Vision
Poetry
" I write plays and poetry at the same time, and I'm always refining, but I'm not obsessive about it. It's what I like to do, what I've always wanted to do. "
Derek Walcott
Write
Same
Always
" I've been writing poetry seriously since about 2008, 2009. "
Clint Smith
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" Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there. "
Archibald MacLeish
Journalism
Poetry
Man
" I'm a poet, and I spent my life in poetry. "
Edward Hirsch
Poetry
Life
Spent
" That's all there was in our house: poetry and choir rehearsal and duets and so forth; I listened to Dad and Mother discuss things about poetry and delivery and voice and diction - I don't think anyone could know how much it really means. "
Chuck Berry
Know
Mother
Much
" I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length. "
John Ashbery
Poetry
Head
Going
" There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry. "
Emily Dickinson
Us
Away
Book
" That's another pompous expression that is out of fashion, to say that poetry is a gift. It sounds pompous because you say, 'Who gave you the gift, and what is this gift?' And the gift is where I am; the gift is what I have come out of, the people around me who, I think, are beautiful people. "
Derek Walcott
Beautiful
People
Poetry
" I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, 'Now I'm a writer.' I've always been a writer. "
Wole Soyinka
Poetry
Art
School
" Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together. "
Nikki Giovanni
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" Poetry itself hasn't been well served by poets who fled to the margins. "
Edward Hirsch
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