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" I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. "
Eminem
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" I read poetry to save time. "
Marilyn Monroe
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Read
Poetry
" When I was 18, I took a trip to Thailand with a friend. We stayed for a month. Bangkok was very raw for a teenager: there were no cellphones, no Internet, and the only music I had with me was this cassette by Liz Phair. I was writing a lot of poetry, and she embodied a talky style of songwriting that I found very accessible. "
Jenny Lewis
Poetry
Friend
Music
" He could not die when trees were green, for he loved the time too well. "
John Clare
Die
Trees
Green
" 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
" I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality. "
Mark Strand
Best
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Poetry
" Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life. "
William Rose Benet
Honey
Lips
Poetry
" I don't think anybody in my family meant there to be any pressure for me to write. But our parents were incredibly verbal and wrote for a living. The house was full of books, and we all grew up steeped in language. I mean, our mother recited poetry at the dinner table. "
Hallie Ephron
Parents
Family
Think
" I think music is poetry in the sense that I think the condition of poetry I'm going for has some qualities of music that it aspires to. "
Kevin Young
Going
Think
Some
" I love the simple poetry of theater, where you can stand in a spotlight on a stage and wrap a coat around you, and say, 'It was 1860 and it was winter...' "
Gary Oldman
Simple
Stand
Winter
" Elaine Equi has been publishing her observant, often playful poetry for some 30 years, extending and deepening the range of her intrinsically wry voice. "
Floyd Skloot
Years
Poetry
Her
" In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well. "
Paul Valery
Poetry
Say
Well
" A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. "
W. H. Auden
Poetry
Music
Think
" Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have. "
Erica Jong
My Life
Poetry
Think
" Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know. "
Joseph Roux
Poetry
Who
Those
" In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry. "
Norman MacCaig
Think
Doing
Me
" Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through any one that suits you. "
Jim Morrison
You
Poetry
Possibilities
" If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. "
Muhammad Iqbal
Then
Prophecy
Poetry
" Nothing on 'Relapse' and very little on 'Recovery' was produced by me. "
Eminem
Little
Relapse
Recovery
" I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem. "
Howard Nemerov
Within
Talk
Sometimes
" Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew. "
Anthony Hecht
Like
Dark
Hidden
" In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself. "
Seamus Heaney
Ring
Within
Truth
" Five or six songs leaked from the original version of 'Encore.' So I had to go in and make new songs to replace them. "
Eminem
Five
Songs
Go
" Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented. "
Mark Strand
Poem
Turned
Poetry
" It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal. "
Carol Ann Duffy
Always
Win
Women
" I've been writing since I was sixteen. At first, I wrote mostly short stories and poetry. The first thing I ever had published was a poem about a football game. It was printed in my local newspaper. "
Jerry Spinelli
Short
Football
Game
" I aspire to a poetry of great formal integrity, deep passion and high intellect, and I have many models for how to do that. "
Edward Hirsch
Great
Deep
Integrity
" Often people, when they're confronted with a poem, it's like someone who keep saying 'what is the meaning of this? What is the meaning of this?' And that dulls us to the other pleasures poetry offers. "
Billy Collins
Someone
Meaning
People
" I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table. "
Paul Auster
Food
Bread
Money
" Well, I'm working all the time to stay out of trouble! "
Eminem
Time
Well
Out
" When I started writing poetry, it was always in very hip-hop influenced spaces: Someone would teach a Nas song side-by-side with a Gwendolyn Brooks poem, and we'd talk about the connections between those things. "
Jamila Woods
Talk
Song
Poetry