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" I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world. "
Russell Baker
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Lewis Thomas
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" Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm. "
Sylvia Plath
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" There's a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that's a bit blurred in my mind. "
Bo Burnham
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" The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly. "
Frederick William Robertson
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" Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers. "
James Broughton
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" The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write. "
Seamus Heaney
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" I think poetry is the only domain where a writer you like can truly be said to influence you, because you read and reread a poem so many times that it simply drills itself into your head. "
Michel Houellebecq
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" We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other. "
Naomi Klein
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" 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
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Reason
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" Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to be incapable of content with the anthologies of all the world besides. "
William Ernest Henley
World
Content
Ideal
" The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it. "
Sylvia Plath
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Jet
" How do poems grow? They grow out of your life. "
Robert Penn Warren
Grow
Your
Poetry
" Poetry lies its way to the truth. "
John Ciardi
Truth
Poetry
Way
" Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly. "
Anne Stevenson
Bears
Word
Poetry
" You just go where poetry is, whether it's in your heart or your mind or in books or in places where there's live poetry or recordings. "
Joy Harjo
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You
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" I read a little bit of nonfiction and a lot of poetry. I think of poetry as my shot of whiskey when I don't have time to savor a whole bottle of wine. "
Alice McDermott
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Wine
Poetry
" I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry. "
Elizabeth Edwards
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" Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings. "
Victor Hugo
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" 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
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" Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words. "
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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" 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
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Mother
" I like to borrow forms and quotes and use a lot of allusions, in both poetry and music. "
Jamila Woods
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" The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does. "
Lascelles Abercrombie
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Reason
Poetry
" When poetry separates from song, then the words have to carry all the rhythm themselves; they have to do all the work. They can't rely on the singing voice. "
Edward Hirsch
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Words
" When I was in college, I really liked poetry. I don't read much anymore. "
Steve Martin
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" Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented. "
Mark Strand
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" One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. "
Voltaire
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" Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. "
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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" 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
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" I used to spend a lot of time dreaming and writing poetry. "
Mohit Chauhan
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