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" I don't think you can read poetry while you're watching television very well. "
Edward Hirsch
Poetry
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" Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. "
Robert Frost
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Life
Taking
" Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers. "
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Poetry
Like
Ignores
" I always knew that was what I wanted to do - to write, particularly poetry. "
Derek Walcott
Always
Write
Wanted
" I grew up in a middle-class house without books, without art. No one around me wrote poetry or even read it. "
Edward Hirsch
House
Without
Poetry
" Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. "
James Joyce
Most
Against
Always
" By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar. "
David Whyte
Interesting
Just
Poetry
" Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan. "
Erica Jong
Poetry
School
Think
" To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul. "
Susan Vreeland
Soul
Me
Eye
" Poetry takes place in time. It is a durational. Things take place in sequence. "
Edward Hirsch
Poetry
Place
Take
" A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. "
E. M. Forster
Information
Poetry
Together
" Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. "
Carl Sandburg
Synthesis
Biscuits
Poetry
" I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there. "
David Knopfler
Illusion
Poetry
Best
" A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. "
Jean Cocteau
Roses
Bother
Poet
" With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem. "
Lascelles Abercrombie
Man
Determination
Best
" 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
" 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 at its best can do you a lot of harm. "
Sylvia Plath
Best
You
Poetry
" I have written some songs, but I would really call what I've done poetry at the end of the day, because I'll sit with my guitar for hours and hours on end for, like, a week and then I won't touch it for a month. I also just have no confidence. And you know what? I don't have time, because I'd rather be doing other things, like knitting. "
Amanda Seyfried
Day
Time
Week
" The reason why we do maths is because it's like poetry. It's about patterns, and that really turned me on. It made me feel that maths was in tune with the other things I liked doing. "
Marcus du Sautoy
Why
Doing
Feel
" If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. "
Emily Dickinson
Poetry
Me
Know
" Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth. "
June Jordan
Political
Act
Because
" Making poetry with a camera - that's the essence of what I do. "
Denis Villeneuve
Essence
Making
Camera
" You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart. "
Carol Ann Duffy
People
Memory
Life
" I was around in 1970, and now I am around in 2015 ... there is no poetry and very little romance in anything anymore, so it is really like the last phase of 'American Pie.' "
Don McLean
Last
Pie
Now
" 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
" Each book should be an entity unto itself, with its own structure, character, life, name. "
Edward Hirsch
Should
Book
Own
" 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
Words
Together
Time
" Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody. "
Joshua Logan
Own
Music
Melody
" 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
" Money is a kind of poetry. "
Wallace Stevens
Money
Kind
Poetry